CareerPlan

Principal Data Engineer

Carlsbad, CA, usFull-time$173k2026-09-23 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Design, build, and scale data pipelines to ingest heterogeneous sources and prepare data for analytics consumption.

Role type

Principal Data Engineer

Builds

End-to-end data pipelines (ingestion, staging, curated layers) for analytics platforms

Domain

Cloud data engineering (Azure/Snowflake)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Azure Data Factory, SQL, Python/Scala/Java, REST/SOAP API extraction, JSON parsing, SFTP/blob handling, CI/CD, dbt, Infrastructure-as-Code

Preferred skills

Real-time analytics/streaming technologies, Terraform/ARM/Bicep

Responsibilities

Orchestrate ingestion and transformation across source, curated, and serving layers; Design ingestion patterns for raw source formats; Build resilient API extraction logic; Parse and flatten semi-structured JSON payloads; Handle file-based ingestion at scale; Contribute to ADF pipeline CI/CD; Set technical standards and mentor engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship