1,513 principal data engineer jobs at 549 companies in United States
Principal Data Engineer
Arlington, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field; 10+ years data engineering or related experience; expert SQL and strong Python; deep experience with cloud data platforms, dimensional modeling, orchestration, CI/CD, testing, and data quality.
SQL, Python, Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Airflow, Dagster, Kafka, Azure, GitHub, Iceberg
Principal Data Engineer
United States
$140k-$160k/yr RemoteFull Time
7+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or related field; 7+ years data engineering experience; deep dbt, Snowflake, SQL, Git, CI/CD; production data engineering; Python preferred; cloud certifications preferred.
dbt, Snowflake, SQL, Git, CI/CD, Airflow, Python, Claude, Snowflake Cortex Code, GitHub Copilot
Principal Data Engineer
Carlsbad or United States
$181k-$242k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years data engineering experience, senior/technical lead level; hands-on Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SQL, Python/Scala/Java; experience with REST APIs, JSON/XML, SFTP; Bachelor's in CS/Engineering preferred; strong communication.
Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SQL, Python, Scala, Java, dbt, Terraform, ARM, Bicep, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
Principal Data Engineer
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
$102k-$170k/yr RemoteFull Time
15+ YOEBachelor's degree required, 15+ years enterprise data engineering and architecture experience, expertise in Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power BI, data mesh, data governance, and generative AI; strong leadership and stakeholder management.
Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power BI, Data Mesh, Data Federation, LLMs, vector databases
Principal Data Engineer
United States
$171k-$190k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years data engineering or cloud data architecture experience; advanced SQL and Python; Terraform for cloud infrastructure; experience with real-time streaming and API-driven connectors.
SQL, Python, Terraform, AWS Kafka, Snowflake, Jira, Claude, Gemini
Principal Data Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years architectural and design experience; Bachelor's in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (Master's preferred); expert SQL, data structures, algorithms, schema design; proven track record in real-time data platforms and data strategy.
SQL
Principal Data Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$143k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's in Computer Science and 5 years' software engineering experience, or 7 years' experience, or Master's and 3 years' experience; plus 4 years' data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics experience.
Spark, Flink, Kafka, GCP, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub-Sub, Airflow
Principal Data Engineer
Brighton, Massachusetts, United States +1 more
$139k-$208k/yr HybridFull Time
11+ YOEBachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field; 11-13 years data engineering experience; expert SQL and Python; deep Snowflake expertise; Azure Data Factory, Data Lake/Blob Storage; dbt, GitHub, CI/CD; AI coding agents and LLM techniques.
Snowflake, Python, SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Blob Storage, dbt, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Snowpark, Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake Cortex AI Functions
Principal Data Engineer
Linthicum or Chicago or Tampa
$110k-$140k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or related field; 8+ years data engineering experience; strong SQL and Python; AWS and Snowflake; dbt; CI/CD and Git; infrastructure-as-code; AI-assisted engineering tools.
AWS, Snowflake, dbt, SQL, Python, S3, Lambda, Glue, DynamoDB, MWAA, Git, CI/CD
Principal Data Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
$180k-$252k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years big data engineering experience; 5+ years with distributed systems (Hadoop/Databricks, Spark, Presto, Hive); experience with MPP/cloud databases; data modeling, orchestration (Airflow), CI/CD, Terraform; Bachelor's in computer science or related field.
Python, Scala, Java, AWS, S3, Lambda, IAM, Hadoop, Databricks, Spark, Presto, Hive, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow, Terraform
Principal Data Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
$129k-$259k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, information systems, mathematics, or engineering; expert-level software development experience; Spark on Databricks, Python, Scala, SQL, Snowflake; ETL/ELT pipelines; data modeling; cloud infrastructure; REST API; Agile tools.
Databricks, Unity Catalog, Spark, Python, Scala, SQL, Snowflake, Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake, AWS, S3, SQS, GitLab CI/CD, REST API, Tableau, JIRA, Confluence
Principal Data Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$179k-$236k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, bioengineering, or related field; 4+ years building software or data infrastructure in lab/R&D; strong Python and SQL; LIMS/ELN API experience; web application development; lab data workflow knowledge.
Benchling, Postgres, REST APIs, Python, SQL, AWS, Hamilton, Tecan, HighRes Biosolutions, Dynamic Devices, Beckman
Principal Data Engineer
Westlake, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's in computer science or related field plus 5 years experience, or Master's plus 3 years, in enterprise data platform engineering using Snowflake, AWS, Oracle Database, Exadata, and GoldenGate; demonstrated expertise in Oracle replication, HA/DR, and large-scale databases.
Snowflake, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Data Guard, High-Volume Replication (HVR), SnowSQL
Principal Data Engineer
Pune or United States or Brazil
OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years building production data engineering systems and 5+ years at staff or principal scope. Requires Spark, Databricks, SQL, Airflow, AWS, entity resolution, and Python, Scala, or Java expertise.
Apache Spark, Databricks, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Airflow, Python, Scala, Java, AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark MLlib
Principal Data Engineer, Biometrics
San Diego, California, United States
$133k-$182k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Statistics or related field with 6+ years data engineering experience in regulated clinical environment, or Master's with 4+ years; advanced CDISC standards knowledge; strong Python, SQL, database design; GxP validation experience.
Python, SQL, SAS, R, Git, GitHub, CI/CD, AWS, Databricks, Spark, Pinnacle 21
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