Remote Principal Platform Engineer: Data Platform Lead

shopware AG

United States

Remote

USD 135,000 - 191,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Mobile/remote work options

Well-structured onboarding

Equipment provided

Job summary

Shopware AG is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to own the Data Platform responsible for ingestion, storage, and orchestration runtimes. You will shape the architecture and reliability and collaborate with Data & AI teams to build scalable data pipelines in a remote-first setup.

This senior IC role emphasizes observability, governance, and cross-team communication, working with Infrastructure to maintain a self-serve platform that supports analytics, governance, and compliance.

Qualifications

Hands-on AWS experience with data pipelines and lakehouse components.
Terraform experience building and evolving shared modules.
Experience with CDC pipelines and Iceberg-based lakehouse tiering.
Familiarity with Kafka-based event streaming (MSK) and schema registries.
Comfort operating a platform relied on by multiple teams, with incident response ownership.
Strong cross-team communication and ability to influence without direct reporting lines.

Responsibilities

Own ingestion, storage, and orchestration for the Data Platform.
Develop and maintain observability, SLOs/SLIs, and on-call processes.
Collaborate with Data & AI to align infrastructure boundaries with pipeline logic.
Partner with Infrastructure to enforce governance and compliance requirements.