Principal Data Engineer
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Job Description
As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be the senior technical leader for our cloud data platform — setting architecture and standards, solving the hardest problems, and leading how we use AI to reinvent data engineering.
• You will set the architecture, engineering standards, and reusable frameworks the team builds to on Google Cloud and BigQuery.
• You will lead how the team adopts generative and agentic AI to reinvent how we discover, build, test, and document data.
• You will design and deliver AI-powered data solutions, such as natural-language access to data and data agents, in production.
• You will solve the most complex problems and act as the technical point of escalation across programs.
• You will partner with business, finance, and leadership stakeholders to shape strategy and own trusted outcomes.
• You will mentor senior and lead engineers and raise the team's engineering and AI capability.