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Principal Data Engineer
Hims & HersTelemedicine company
RemoteLead
Thrive Capital
Forerunner Ventures
8VC
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead data platform architecture, drive technical direction, and establish engineering standards.
- •Hims & Hers is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the architectural vision for their data platform.
- •This senior individual contributor role involves close partnership with product, engineering, and data science leadership to define technical direction and drive high-stakes architectural decisions across the organization.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the long-term technical architecture for data platform engineering, including ingestion, orchestration, and event streaming.
- •Chair Architecture Review Committee (ARC) decisions and act as the primary technical DRI for cross-team changes.
- •Establish and enforce engineering standards for data quality, observability, testing, and CI/CD.
- •Define the technical strategy for self-service analytics and own the evaluation and governance of DPE-managed tooling.
- •Drive cost governance for platform infrastructure and lead incident response for platform-level incidents.
- •Requirements 15+ years of experience designing, building, and owning data platform architecture.
- •Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms across GCP (BigQuery strongly preferred) and operational familiarity with AWS.
- •Hands-on experience with the modern data stack including dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Databricks, Fivetran, and data sharing platforms.
- •Experience designing and operating event streaming pipelines at scale, with strong Python and SQL skills.
- •Proven track record establishing engineering standards and leading incident response for data platform outages.
Required skills
PythonSQLBigQuerydbtAirflowDatabricksTerraformGoogle CloudAWSFivetranHIPAAGDPR
Nice-to-have skills
SparkGo
Domain expertise
healthtech
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary & equity compensation, Unlimited PTO, Company holidays, Quarterly mental health days, Comprehensive health benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision, Parental leave, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), 401k benefits with employer matching contribution, Offsite team retreats
Tech stack
Google CloudBigQueryAirflowdbtTerraformPythonSQLAWSEKSFivetran
