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Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer

CompanyHi Marley
LocationBoston, MA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building reliable, performant data systems, including data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and warehouse optimization.
  • Comfortable with SQL and Python (or similar languages), and hands-on experience with tools like dbt, Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake, or other cloud-native data platforms.
  • Experience designing systems with built-in privacy, access controls, and governance. Familiarity with secure data handling, regulatory compliance, and data classification in multi-tenant or regulated environments.
  • Ability to work across product, engineering, and analytics teams to shape systems that deliver long-term value.

Responsibilities

  • Help define and deliver a data platform roadmap that supports near-term needs and long-term scale—enabling insights, innovation, and customer value across our products and analytics ecosystem.
  • Build robust systems to ingest, transform, store, and serve data across multi-tenant and single-tenant use cases—balancing flexibility, security, and performance.
  • Develop reliable and observable pipelines using modern batch and near real-time approaches, connecting internal and external data sources.
  • Advance practices in data quality, observability, and governance—ensuring our systems are secure, compliant, auditable, and built to meet customer and regulatory expectations.
  • Work closely with the analytics and product teams to deliver structured, reliable data pipelines that support a growing ecosystem of dashboards, customer-facing analytics, and research—providing the trusted foundation for downstream insights.
  • Provide guidance, share knowledge, and lead by example to establish best practices and grow the data engineering function.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to define and evolve a data platform roadmap that grows with our customers, products, and teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing backend systems that power customer-facing analytics or data-driven product features.