Principal Software Engineer - Data

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About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer (Data) to join our fast-paced, collaborative data team. In this role, you will have broad authority to drive the direction of our technographic data services, building world-class data pipelines and systems to process billions of signals and data points. This is an exciting opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a big impact as we invest in making technographics a first-class offering.

What You'll Do:

• Build and optimize big data pipelines to extract and process signals from the web, job postings, and other sources

• Design and implement data architectures and storage solutions to efficiently handle massive data volumes

• Collaborate closely with data scientists to support and integrate ML models into data workflows

• Continuously improve data quality, performance, and scalability of our technographic data platform

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for the data processing infrastructure.

What We're Looking For:

• Extensive experience building and scaling big data pipelines and architectures from scratch

• Deep expertise in big data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark ) and the JVM stack ( Java , Scala )

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write efficient, high-quality code

• Experience with entity recognition and NLP techniques a plus

• Proven track record deliver

Department: 936 Engineering - Data Engineering