Principal Data Engineer
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Job Summary
Role: Principal Data Engineer
Location: Toronto or Vancouver Canada (Remote)
Mandatory skill:- Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is Must with AI
Ideal Experience
- Principal Data Engineer with at least 10 years of professional experience in software or data engineering including a minimum of 4 years focused on streaming and real-time data systems
- Proven experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers while delivering complex high-scale solutions as a hands-on contributor
- Deep expertise in streaming and real-time data technologies including frameworks such as Apache Kafka Flink and Spark Streaming
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems with hands-on experience implementing resilient low-latency pipelines
- Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and containerized deployments for data workloads
- Fluency in data quality practices and CI/CD integration including schema management automated testing and validation frameworks (e.g. dbt Great Expectations)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies even when uncomfortable
- Self-starter who thrives with minimal supervision and collaborates effectively as a team player
- Excellent organizational and critical-thinking skills
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate development
