Principal Data Platform Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Principal Data Platform Engineer to own the data platform as we migrate to a new cloud environment and modernize how data moves from applications through streams, into a governed warehouse, and out to marts that teams can actually use. This is a hands-on IC role reporting to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end data architecture including application CDC, streaming, schema design, transformation, warehouse/mart modeling, and consumption-readiness with IaC and automation-first delivery.
• Build resilient multi-region database and replication topologies with automated failover and DR.
• Arcitect streaming pipelines with correctness, replayability, and schema evolution as first-class concerns.
• Model, document, and catalog marts for downstream self-service analytics and customer-facing consumption.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and data-quality observability across data platform services.
• Own PII classification, lineage, access controls, and encryption in partnership with Security.
• Mentor engineers and set architectural standards across data platform craft.
• Treat compute and storage spend as a design input.

Requirements

• 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with a track record at Staff or Principal IC level.
• Proven experience building large-scale distributed data systems in production.
• Deep hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable) with IaC and CI/CD (Terraform or comparable).
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals across streaming and relational/warehouse patterns.
• Production depth in at least one orchestration tool and one streaming/ingestion stack.
• Experience designing cross-regional database replication architectures, including failover and consistency trade-offs.
• Warehouse and mart modeling with a transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable).
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling.
• Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team problems end to end from approach through delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with a track record at Staff or Principal IC level.
• Proven experience building large-scale distributed data systems in production.
• Deep hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable) with IaC and CI/CD (Terraform or comparable).
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals across streaming and relational/warehouse patterns.
• Production depth in at least one orchestration tool and one streaming/ingestion stack.
• Experience designing cross-regional database replication architectures, including failover and consistency trade-offs.
• Warehouse and mart modeling with a transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable).
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling.
• Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team problems end to end from approach through delivery.

Skills

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud IaaS: Azure (primary), AWS or GCP transferable; IaC: Terraform or comparable; git-backed, automated delivery; CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar.
• Data Platform & Streaming: Orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar; Streaming & ingestion: Kafka, Flink, Airbyte, or similar; CDC, event streaming, batch ingestion, schema registries, and event contracts; Warehouse: Snowflake or comparable; transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable); mart modeling.
• Governance & Security: PII classification/labeling, lineage, change management, data-access model, encryption for regulated client data; Secret management: Azure Key Vault or similar.
• Programming & Observability: Python, Go, or similar; SQL; YAML/JSON/HCL for IaC and pipelines; Metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and data-quality monitoring for pipelines and platform services.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous vacation time
• Paid bonding leave
• Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance

Company Information

Doma Technology LLC offers solutions for lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners that make closings vastly simpler and more efficient, reducing cost and increasing customer satisfaction.

Our Values:

• Obsessively Entrepreneurial
• People First
• Better Together
• Act with Integrity

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

We believe the most valuable investment we can make is to build an outstanding team of colleagues and leaders who are passionate about our mission.

We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees:

• Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
• 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
• Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family’s needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with company match program
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance

We believe in Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.