Principal Data Engineer

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $151.5k - $220.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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8th Light

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Software

8th Light is a software design and development company that specializes in creating tailored software solutions and AI applications for businesses. They emphasize collaboration with clients to align software strategies with business goals, ensuring the successful launch of products and services. In addition to custom software development, 8th Light provides consulting and support for scaling enterprise systems and integrating advanced AI technologies to address complex challenges.

📋 Description

• Own architecture and end-to-end delivery for modern data platforms • Shape client data strategy and design scalable solutions • Lead implementation efforts from design through production • Partner directly with client stakeholders from requirements through executive updates • Mentor internal team members and ensure high-quality delivery • Balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution • Lead or initiate retrospectives and feedback conversations • Document outcomes and drive action items forward • Contribute to team health and company culture • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress • Contribute through mentoring, leading workshops, tech community representation, or hiring support

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in software and 7+ years in data engineering • Clear progression into technical leadership and architectural ownership • Deep expertise in Databricks and modern lakehouse architecture, including Delta Lake and Spark-based processing • Advanced SQL and Python skills for building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, data services, and infrastructure design • Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and distributed data processing • Experience using orchestration tools and transformation frameworks in production • Experience with healthcare data such as Epic, HL7, FHIR, and claims • Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code tools • Experience mentoring internal team members • Strongly preferred: platform engineering; Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub; production agentic systems including RAG pipelines and vector search; MLOps; Infrastructure as Code

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development • Coworking support for our global team • Flexible PTO • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees