Principal Software/Data Engineer

PointClickCare
Full-time
Remote, USA
$183,200 - $203,500
Posted on a month ago

Job Description

PointClickCare is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver production-grade streaming pipelines, mentor team members, and drive both business and technical objectives. This hands-on leadership role involves enhancing existing data solutions and shaping the future of the company's data ecosystem using modern technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and guide the design and implementation of scalable streaming data pipelines
  • Engineer and optimize real-time data solutions
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, and AI teams
  • Advance modernization efforts and adoption of event-driven architectures
  • Drive adoption of best practices in data governance and observability
  • Embed data quality in processing pipelines
  • Establish robust observability for data pipelines
  • Foster a culture of quality through peer reviews

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience in software or data engineering (4+ years in streaming/real-time data)
  • Experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers
  • Deep expertise in streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Fluency in data quality practices and CI/CD integration
  • Operational excellence in observability
  • Solid foundation in data governance and performance optimization
  • Experience with Lakehouse architectures

Benefits

  • No benefits