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Principal Engineer, Cloud Data Infrastructure
Skills, with evidence
- AWS
5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments (AWS preferred).
must have · not practised here - Data modelling
Deep, hands-on technical expertise across data and messaging systems — relational and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, and message queue architectures; you can get into the internals when needed.
must have - Data quality
Demonstrated track record delivering performance improvements and scalability enhancements for consumer-facing applications serving tens of millions of users.
must have - Streaming
Knowledge of modern data pipeline frameworks and real-time analytics architectures.
- Airflow / orchestration
Strong DevOps engineering background including infrastructure as code, CI/CD for data systems, and automation-first operational practices.
- Failure handling
Familiarity with resilience engineering, failure injection testing, and business continuity planning.
- Terraform
Strong DevOps engineering background including infrastructure as code, CI/CD for data systems, and automation-first operational practices.
not practised here
Your plan
- SQL
drills at the Staff level
- Modelling
drills at the Staff level
- Pipelines
drills at the Staff level
The full plan, drill by drill, is on the job page.
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