Principal Data Engineer

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Principal Data Engineer architecting cloud data platforms, pipelines, and AI agents for Axonius cybersecurity asset intelligence. Driving secure, scalable enterprise data architecture across business domains.

Responsibilities:

  • Formulate and execute the technical architecture strategy for global ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming frameworks such as AWS Kafka, and Terraform infrastructure-as-code deployments for enterprise-wide AI/ML initiatives
  • Serve as principal technical authority for the data engineering work group
  • Establish development standards, code review practices, and evaluation criteria
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain autonomous AI agents using LLMs such as Claude and Gemini
  • Integrate AI agents into the modern data stack for automated insights
  • Assess high-risk architectural challenges across GTM, Finance, Product, and other operational domains
  • Make architectural decisions on data warehousing, schema drift mitigation, and data lake scalability
  • Partner with IT, Security, Product infrastructure, and Analytics Engineering teams on governance, architecture, repository stability, scalability, and performance
  • Implement automated pipeline monitoring, alerting, and ingestion-tier data cleansing mechanisms
  • Isolate and fix broken fields and source schema drift
  • Enforce global RBAC and PII data masking standards

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud data architecture, or specialized infrastructure roles
  • Proven track record of delivering technical leadership for engineering work groups
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL
  • Advanced proficiency in Python for pipeline automation, data scripting, and AI agent orchestration frameworks
  • Extensive experience designing, provisioning, and tuning production-grade cloud environments using Terraform
  • Experience independently architecting real-time streaming topologies
  • Experience with high-volume event data ingestions
  • Experience developing custom API-driven connector/adapter frameworks
  • Preferred: Experience using Agile management tools like Jira
  • Preferred: Expertise with Snowflake
  • Preferred: Experience managing cross-functional technical data requirements and standardizing architectures
  • Preferred: Experience with machine learning training pipelines, Vector DBs, and operational AI
  • Preferred: Experience with data cleansing, quality monitoring, and system resilience frameworks
  • Preferred: Experience with multi-region AWS cloud data infrastructure
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States, as indicated by the USA location and E-Verify participation

Benefits:

  • Stock options
  • Attractive benefits
  • Annual bonus
  • Competitive compensation
  • Growth opportunities
  • Community-building