Principal Data Platform Engineer

Doma

Principal Data Platform Engineer at Doma Technology migrating data platforms to a new cloud environment. Focused on ensuring data governance and usability across teams in a hands-on role.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement end-to-end data architecture including application CDC, streaming, schema design, transformation, warehouse/mart modeling, and consumption-readiness with IaC and automation-first delivery.
Build resilient multi-region database and replication topologies with automated failover and DR.
Architect streaming pipelines with correctness, replayability, and schema evolution as first-class concerns.
Model, document, and catalog marts for downstream self-service analytics and customer-facing consumption.
Build monitoring, alerting, and data-quality observability across data platform services.
Own PII classification, lineage, access controls, and encryption in partnership with Security.
Mentor engineers and set architectural standards across data platform craft.
Treat compute and storage spend as a design input.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with a track record at Staff or Principal IC level.
Proven experience building large-scale distributed data systems in production.
Deep hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable) with IaC and CI/CD (Terraform or comparable).
Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals across streaming and relational/warehouse patterns.
Production depth in at least one orchestration tool and one streaming/ingestion stack.
Experience designing cross-regional database replication architectures, including failover and consistency trade-offs.
Warehouse and mart modeling with a transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable).
Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling.
Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team problems end to end from approach through delivery.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical/dental/vision insurance
401(k)
generous vacation time
paid bonding leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

data architecturestreamingschema designtransformationwarehouse modelingdata modelingSQLPythonGoIaC

Soft Skills

mentoringarchitectural standardsproblem ownership