Principal Data Engineer
Hims & Hers2 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year architecture for ingestion, streaming, orchestration, transformation, and serving as a coherent data platform.
- Set the strategy for production-scale streaming, including Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, operational commitments, delivery semantics, and cost implications.
- Define interfaces, service boundaries, data contracts, quality and freshness guarantees, dataset tiering, and accountability across organizations.
- Establish platform economics, including storage and compute strategy, reservations, orchestration footprint, and consumption accountability.
- Create a self-service strategy and guardrails that enable Analytics Engineering and Data Science teams to work independently without compromising production.
- Set cross-team standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, schema governance, and infrastructure as code.
- Chair architecture reviews and serve as decision-maker of record for cross-team, multi-system, and cost-impacting changes.
- Guide ML and Data Science readiness, HIPAA and PHI compliance posture, and infrastructure hardening with Legal, Security, and DevOps.
- Produce ADRs, design documents, RFCs, and other written technical records that align teams.
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers through design reviews and hands-on pairing while writing and reviewing production code and driving systemic fixes for platform-level P1 incidents.
Requirements
- 12+ years building and owning data platform architecture, with experience living with the consequences of major technical decisions.
- Experience setting technical direction across organizations without direct management authority and achieving adoption through credibility.
- Deep GCP and BigQuery expertise plus operational fluency with AWS and EKS in a multicloud environment.
- Experience governing modern data platforms at scale using dbt, Airflow or Astronomer, Kafka or Confluent, Databricks or Spark, Fivetran, and reverse ETL or activation platforms such as Hightouch.
- Production-scale event streaming experience, including Schema Registry, data contracts, consumer lag management, and delivery semantics.
- Experience with data governance and compliance in regulated environments, including HIPAA, PHI handling, data classification, access controls, audit logging, and GDPR.
- Experience with Terraform or an equivalent infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Strong Python and SQL skills and experience reviewing production pipeline code.
- Strong technical writing skills, including design documents that drive cross-organizational decisions.
- Preferred experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, CDC patterns, Flink, PySpark, SparkSQL, warehouse or lakehouse migrations, MLOps partnerships, model training pipelines, feature stores, experimentation infrastructure, or AI product data foundations.
- Preferred Go or Python service development experience for Kafka producers and consumers.
- Preferred experience in direct-to-consumer healthcare or telehealth and with HIPAA, GDPR, and SOX compliance controls.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity compensation for a full-time role.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days.
- Medical, dental, vision, and parental leave benefits.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program and 401k benefits with employer matching contribution.
- Offsite team retreats.
- Talent-first flexible/remote work approach is described.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatabricksdbtGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
Data Engineering
About Hims & Hers
Hims & Hers operates a direct-to-consumer telehealth and pharmacy platform for men’s and women’s health, offering online visits, prescriptions, and over‑the‑counter products for conditions like hair loss, sexual health, dermatology, and mental health. It monetizes through subscriptions and product sales, with nationwide shipping and affiliated providers and pharmacies. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company went public on the NYSE under the ticker HIMS in 2021.