Principal Data Engineer
Beacon BiosignalsNeurotechnology company
Boston, United States$190,000 – $210,000Lead
General Catalyst
Casdin Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Principal Data Engineer to architect and design scalable data models and event-driven pipelines.
- •Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join their Datastore team.
- •This role is central to Beacon's platform, defining the foundational data model and serving as the centralized repository and API for brain data.
- •Key Responsibilities Guide architecture and solutions for the Beacon Datastore and influence architectural standards across Platform teams.
- •Implement features that model best practices and coach team members.
- •Draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases.
- •Requirements 10+ years of backend development experience, with significant focus on data engineering, data platforms, and infrastructure.
- •Strong proficiency in SQL and production experience with PostgreSQL.
- •Proficiency with data streaming and event processing (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis).
- •Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm).
Required skills
SQLPostgreSQLRabbitMQTypeScriptKubernetesTerraformHelm
Domain expertise
biotechhealthcaredeeptech
Benefits & perks
equity, PTO, other benefits, remote work
Tech stack
SQLPostgreSQLRabbitMQTypeScriptKubernetesTerraformHelm