Senior Principal Data Engineer

Gen

Tamil Nadu, India
Snowflake architecture, optimization, performance tuning
Kimball dimensional data warehouses, star schema
Aws cloud infrastructure for data operations
This role requires someone who can architect systems within your team's domain, reasonably be expected to come up with and drive the projects that your crew should do to solve complex business problems, and actively mentor other engineers

Job Summary

  • This role requires someone who can architect systems within your team's domain, reasonably be expected to come up with and drive the projects that your crew should do to solve complex business problems, and actively mentor other engineers.
  • As a Senior Principal Data Engineer, you will fully understand and own multiple entire areas of the codebase or multiple services, work with your Manager or a Technical Director to validate your technical decisions when you ask for input, and contribute significantly to our data engineering practices and standards.
  • At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team.

Matching Summary

This role requires someone who can architect systems within your team's domain, reasonably be expected to come up with and drive the projects that your crew should do to solve complex business problems, and actively mentor other engineers.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Snowflake architecture, optimization, performance tuning
  • Kimball dimensional data warehouses, star schema
  • AWS cloud infrastructure for data operations
  • DBT or SQL Mesh for data transformation
  • CI/CD pipelines, GitFlow/trunk-based development
  • Apache Kafka, event-driven architectures
  • Data Lakehouse architectures, modern table formats

Nice-to-have

  • Subscription business models experience
  • High-volume data processing experience
  • Leveraging AI as a teammate
  • Customer-driven, scrappy, experimental culture
  • Collaboration and healthy debate

Key Requirements

  • 6-10 years of hands-on data engineering experience
  • Expert in SQL and Python
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
  • Compliance knowledge (GDPR, PCI-DSS)

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Not specified

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