Principal Data Engineer

🕒 July 31

🗽 New York, Massachusetts – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $190k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Beacon Biosignals

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Beacon Biosignals is a company focused on powering precision medicine for the brain. Their EEG neurobiomarker platform is engineered to accelerate clinical trials and enable new treatments for patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases. The platform captures a rich array of the brain's activity in real time and utilizes machine learning to analyze EEG data for treatment efficacy, dose selection, and population stratification. Beacon Biosignals partners with biopharma companies, academic medical centers, and neurotechnology developers to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

📋 Description

• Guide architecture and solutions for the Beacon Datastore in partnership with engineering and product leaders and Datastore stakeholders • Influence architectural standards across Platform teams • Implement features that model best practices • Coach team members and help develop their skills • Maintain high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability • Draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases • Solicit and incorporate input and build alignment on decisions guiding development • Collaborate with product and technical leads across platform and scientific teams • Help shape architectural direction and standards across Platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend development experience, including significant experience in data engineering, data platforms, and infrastructure for data-centric applications • Strong proficiency in SQL • Production experience with PostgreSQL • Proficiency with data streaming and event processing using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis, or equivalent • Strong proficiency in a modern general-purpose programming language • Ability and enthusiasm to learn SQL, TypeScript, and Julia quickly; Datastore-specific stack proficiency is not required • Experience with, or interest in, LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production, with good judgment about required guardrails • Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments • Familiarity with Kubernetes • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or Helm • Collaborative mindset and ability to work across disciplines • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in asynchronous and remote-friendly environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • PTO • Robust asynchronous work practices • First-class remote work experience • In-person office hubs available in Boston, New York and Paris • Opportunity to coach engineers and develop their skills