Principal Engineer – Software

EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV, serving millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.

About the role

Principal Engineer – Software sought by DISH Network, LLC in Englewood, CO. This role involves analyzing, designing, and building applications and data pipelines, defining standards for ETL/ELT processes, and working with databases and data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and build applications and data pipelines.
• Define standards and procedures for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) processes for both batch and real-time data.
• Design Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, and work with databases.
• Write advanced SQL queries, including performance tuning, to support data analysis and application needs.
• Evaluate and resolve production issues and provide daily technical support to team members; collaborate with offshore teams as required.
• Handle the entire software development lifecycle for data warehouse applications, from requirements analysis to implementation, testing, and debugging.
• Build self-service reports and dashboards in tools like Orbit Analytics and Tableau.
• Automate delivery of reports via email, web-based access, or file system delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or similar roles.
• Experience with the following (may have been gained concurrently):
  • Redshift and Snowflake (5 years).
  • ETL processes (5 years).
  • Oracle and SQL Server (5 years).
  • Teradata (5 years).
  • SQL, Python, and Linux/Unix shell scripting (5 years).
  • Control-M (5 years).
  • AWS services (3 years).
  • Orbit or Tableau (1 year).

Benefits

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test. Benefits information is available at careers.dish.com.

Pay

$169,062.00 per year.