Our Engineering team is driving the future of cloud securitydeveloping one of the world's largest, most resilient cloud-native data platforms. At Skyhigh Security, we're enabling enterprises to protect their data with deep intelligence and dynamic enforcement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a Principal Data Engineer to help us scale our platform, integrate advanced AI/ML workflows, and lead the evolution of our secure data infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Leading the design and implementation of high-scale, cloud-native data pipelines for real-time and batch workloads.
Collaborating with product managers, architects, and backend teams to translate business needs into secure and scalable data solutions.
Integrating big data frameworks (like Spark, Kafka, Flink) with cloud-native services (AWS/GCP/Azure) to support security analytics use cases.
Driving CI/CD best practices, infrastructure automation, and performance tuning across distributed environments.
Evaluating and piloting the use of AI/LLM technologies in data pipelines (e.g., anomaly detection, metadata enrichment, automation).
Evaluate and integrate LLM-based automation and AI-enhanced observability into engineering workflows.
Ensure data security and privacy compliance.
Mentoring engineers, ensuring high engineering standards, and promoting technical excellence across teams.

What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)

10+ years of experience in big data architecture and engineering including deep proficiency with AWS cloud platform.
Expertise in distributed systems and frameworks such as Apache Spark, Scala, Kafka, Flink and Elasticsearch with experience building production-grade data pipelines.
Strong programming skills in Java for building scalable data applications.
Hands-on experience with ETL tools and orchestration systems.
Solid understanding of data modeling across both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Hbase) databases and performance tuning.

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

Experience integrating AI/ML or LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) into data workflows.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
Knowledge of modern data warehousing (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake) and data governance principles (GDPR, HIPAA).
Strong ability to translate business goals into technical architecture and mentor teams through delivery.
Familiarity with visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI) to communicate data insights, even if not a primary responsibility.