Senior Principal Data Engineer

The role

You will shape the technical direction and architecture of the data platform across infrastructure, Databricks, streaming, data products, and governance. You will drive resolution of cross-cutting technical challenges and mentor senior engineers.

What you will do

• Shape the technical direction and architecture of the data platform
• Identify and drive resolution of cross-cutting technical challenges
• Define and evolve platform-wide standards, patterns, and abstractions
• Influence roadmap priorities by framing trade-offs and driving alignment
• Drive adoption of changes across teams
• Mentor and elevate senior engineers
• Lead complex, multi-squad initiatives with minimal direction

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as a data engineer in a modern, production-grade cloud data platform
• Meaningful exposure across IaC infrastructure (Terraform/Atmos), CDC streaming (Kafka, Flink, Debezium), Databricks operations, data governance, batch and streaming pipelines, developer experience
• Track record of cross-team impact
• Strong Python and dbt skills
• Ability to frame ambiguous technical problems and drive them to resolution with minimal guidance
• Experience navigating organizational complexity and aligning stakeholders
• Experience making architectural decisions with long-term, multi-year consequences
• Strong technical judgment balanced with pragmatism

Nice to have

• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory frameworks (ex: GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, FedRAMP)
• Experience designing golden paths and self-service tooling for engineering teams

About the company

MaintainX is a mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. It became part of Autodesk in August 2026.