Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

• Principal Data Engineer role with Robert Half; direct-hire permanent, full-time, and fully remote.
• Architect and build a modern, scalable data platform covering ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, analytics, and AI workloads.
• Develop batch and real-time pipelines using Python and tools such as Spark and Kafka across relational, event, and document data sources.
• Requires 10+ years of data engineering experience, including large-scale architecture ownership, plus expertise in cloud environments, data modeling, governance, ETL, testing, and CI/CD.
• Compensation is $180,000–$225,000 base plus significant bonus and/or equity potential; employer cannot provide sponsorship and cannot hire C2C.