Data Platform Principal Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
• Design and implement scalable platform services and reusable frameworks to standardize data onboarding and consumption.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives from initial architecture through production rollout.
• Establish engineering standards for resiliency, performance, observability, capacity management, and cost efficiency.
• Create reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• Build automation for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and policy as code to reduce operational toil.
• Drive operational excellence through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Ensure platform solutions meet regulatory, audit, and data governance requirements in partnership with security and risk teams.

What we're looking for

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale software platforms or data platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong distributed systems and platform engineering expertise including reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and service design.
• Hands-on experience with data platform domains such as batch/streaming ingestion, orchestration, processing, and serving patterns.
• Proven ability to build production-grade systems with robust testing, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational controls.
• Strong knowledge of data governance and control concepts including access management, encryption, retention, auditability, and privacy.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and strong API and systems design skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries (preferred).