Principal Data Engineer
True Anomaly3 months ago
Denver, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products using Python and SQL for batch, streaming, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
- Build and optimize ELT/ETL processes and data models on cloud data platforms for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Establish engineering practices for data quality, testing, monitoring, observability, version control, security, and production reliability.
- Own data engineering projects from technical design and development through deployment, production support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with engineering, AI/ML, analytics, product, and business teams to develop reliable and scalable data solutions.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools and contribute through code reviews, reusable frameworks, documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.
- Mentor Junior and Senior Data Engineers and provide technical guidance across engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering and software engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
- 3+ years of experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or both.
- Strong understanding of data engineering, data architecture, data modeling, and ELT/ETL.
- Strong understanding of software engineering practices including Git, testing, CI/CD, and code reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentor other engineers.
- Experience adopting AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and delivery speed.
- Preferred experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Preferred experience with Airflow, dbt, Kafka, or similar technologies.
- Preferred experience building Lakehouse architectures and working with data governance, lineage, and observability.
- Must satisfy applicable U.S. Government space technology export-control eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, paid holidays, 401K, parental leave, and equity.
- Work location is Long Beach, California, or Denver, Colorado, in a hybrid environment.
- Employees should expect to be onsite at least 3 days per week on average, with requirements subject to business needs and classified-system work.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGitGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSnowflakeSQL
Categories
Data Engineering
About True Anomaly
True Anomaly builds spacecraft and software for space defense, including autonomous satellites, precision-sensing payloads, mission command-and-control software, and space-based interceptors for national security and commercial operators. Founded in 2022 by former U.S. Space Force members, it is privately held and headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The company sells hardware, AI-enabled flight software, and mission operations services to U.S. and allied defense programs and space infrastructure providers.