[Hiring] Principal Data Engineer @FullStack

Role Description

Join our talent network and connect with U.S. clients for flexible, project-based development work as a Principal Data Engineer. You will integrate directly into our client's team and work alongside their existing designers and engineers on a daily basis.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Advanced English is required (excellent oral and written communication skills are tantamount for this role).
• Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
• Extensive experience building, maintaining, and scaling large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructures in production.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles as a strong generalist, prioritizing architectural trade-offs and systems design over tool-specific specialization.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical anchor, leveling up team members, and driving alignment across technical initiatives.
• Track record of designing, modeling, and optimizing complex backend data structures and pipelines (SQL and NoSQL).
• Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure and managing data engineering workflows in production environments.
• Skilled at reasoning out loud about system designs, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and translating business goals into robust engineering execution.
• Ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack's clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.

Requirements

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the country of this job posting on a full-time basis.
• FullStack will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• 100% remote work.
• The ability to work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Opportunity to grow and expand your career.