Principal Engineer, Data Platform (Go, Cloud) - Remote India

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

the company is a remote-first employer building a data platform that processes hundreds of thousands of events per second. As a Principal Engineer, you will lead the Segment data pipelines, drive scalable ingestion, and guide architecture decisions across teams.

This role emphasizes cloud-native design, cost efficiency, and reliability, with opportunities to implement GenAI/LLM solutions and collaborate with product managers and architects across a distributed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering.
• Hands-on with high-scale messaging/streaming systems.
• Experience building distributed systems and cloud-native design.
• Proven ability to apply GenAI/LLM solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver high-scale routing experiences for the Data platform/pipelines team.
• Architect and operate always-available distributed systems in cloud environments.
• Guide technical decisions balancing cost, performance, and reliability.
• Translate strategy into actionable plans for product managers and architects.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Cloud-native design

GenAI/LLM solutions

Messaging systems

High-scale ingestion

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

the company is a remote-first employer building a data platform that processes hundreds of thousands of events per second. As a Principal Engineer, you will lead the Segment data pipelines, drive scalable ingestion, and guide architecture decisions across teams.

This role emphasizes cloud-native design, cost efficiency, and reliability, with opportunities to implement GenAI/LLM solutions and collaborate with product managers and architects across a distributed organization.