Principal Technical Lead, Software Engineering (Data Infrastructure) - North America Software Center
TSMC11 hours ago
Washington, DC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$167k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term architecture, technical strategy, standards, and roadmap for enterprise data infrastructure.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical decisions across multiple organizations.
- Architect scalable lakehouse, streaming, batch and real-time pipeline, metadata, data catalog, and data API platforms.
- Design highly available distributed systems supporting petabyte-scale storage, replication, synchronization, ingestion, low-latency queries, multi-region deployments, disaster recovery, and fault-tolerant processing.
- Provide AI-ready data pipelines, feature engineering infrastructure, RAG ingestion, vector databases, data governance, lineage, model data pipelines, and training data infrastructure.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and lead cross-functional architecture initiatives.
- Collaborate with engineering, AI infrastructure, cloud platform, business, and global teams across North America and Taiwan.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading architecture for large-scale data platforms.
- 3+ years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Architect, or Technical Lead.
- Deep experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms involving lakehouse architecture, data mesh, data warehousing, streaming, metadata management, data catalogs, and data governance.
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, and Spark Streaming.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, the Hadoop ecosystem, Airflow, and Trino.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL; Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch; and Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or MinIO.
- Strong understanding of distributed storage, data partitioning, replication, and consistency models.
- Programming experience with Java, Scala, Python, or Go.
- Strong technical communication skills for global cross-functional collaboration.
- Preferred experience includes petabyte-scale data, global enterprises, multi-region deployments, manufacturing analytics, AI platforms, real-time streaming, enterprise data governance, and hybrid cloud environments.
Benefits
- On-site work in Vancouver, Washington, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; additional hours may be required for project demands.
- Compensation includes profit sharing, incentive bonuses, and tuition assistance.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus a 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Twelve paid holidays and annually accrued paid time off.
- On-site fitness center, game room, physical therapist, and subsidized café.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkElasticsearchGoJavaMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisScala
Categories
Data Engineering
About TSMC
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is a pure-play semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits for fabless and systems companies on a contract basis. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, it is the world’s largest chip foundry, with advanced process nodes and fabs in Taiwan and new facilities in Arizona and Japan. Its shares trade on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (2330) with ADRs on the NYSE (TSM).