Principal Platform, Data Systems Engineer
WISEcode
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsPostgres
About the role
- Own architecture for core data systems, including Postgres, lakehouse layers, computation pipelines, and semantic models.
- Lead solution design for high-complexity, data-intensive initiatives and deliver production-ready implementations when needed.
- Define data contracts, abstractions, and platform standards that enable multiple teams to build safely and independently.
- Diagnose and resolve issues across data ingestion, storage, computation, and consumption layers.
- Guide schema evolution, performance optimization, data correctness, reliability, and security considerations.
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering culture through clarity, documentation, and principled design.
- Partner closely with product, CTO, AI/ML, and engineering teams to shape roadmap feasibility and long-term platform direction.
- Apply AI and analytics concepts in ways that are explainable, auditable, and grounded in well-defined data semantics.
Requirements
- BSCS or equivalent engineering degree
- 12+ years of strong professional development experience
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale data platforms or systems whose architecture, performance, and evolution you were personally responsible for over time
- Deep expertise with Postgres, data modeling, schema design, query optimization, and data-intensive systems
- Experience designing and evolving distributed systems and computation pipelines beyond their original requirements
- Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team influence as an individual contributor
- Ability to operate independently, set direction, and drive execution in ambiguous or under-specified contexts
- Broad systems thinking with depth in data, computation, and platform architecture
- Experience supporting AI or ML systems through data design, quality, and infrastructure (direct model training experience not required)
- Startup mind - adaptability, urgency, pragmatism, and comfort shifting between experimentation and production delivery
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- and other ancillary benefits offerings
- Paid Time Off for vacation, illness, and other types of leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Postgresdata modelingschema designquery optimizationdata-intensive systemsdistributed systemscomputation pipelinesdata contractsperformance optimizationdata correctness
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcross-team influenceindependent operationdirection settingexecution in ambiguitybroad systems thinkingadaptabilityurgencypragmatism
Certifications
BSCS