Red hat Principal Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

736748772

What will you do?

• Evolve existing source data pipelines to an ELT model of data ingestion

• Cleanly separate source-aligned data products from aggregate data products

• Richly decorate your data products with metadata to support knowledge transfer, adoption, and the application of Machine Learning

• Tag and classify your data assets to ensure they are used responsibly throughout the organization, applying masking or restricting access where appropriate

• Apply software engineering best practices to your code release process to support CI/CD and a high velocity collaboration model based on InnerSource

• Register and maintain the catalog entries for your data products to support discoverability and reuse

• Ensure your data products easily join with other business data products using common identifiers and keys

• Develop automated and resilient processes that support the end-end delivery of business value

• Publish and deliver on a data product SLO for your data ‘customers’

• Responsibly share your data products with other internal consumers while balancing the core needs of security and compliance

• Contribute feedback and recommendations to the Data Platform team in order to remove friction and increase scale for all users

• Write custom adapters to integrate internal data sources into the centralized Warehouse environment

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of software development experience with a focus on data applications & systems

• Exceptional software and data engineering skills that lead to elegant and maintainable data products

• Expert level proficiency in using SQL for data transformation

• Proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language, eg. Python, Go, Java, Rust, etc.

• Strong opinions and perspectives that you kindly debate, defend, or change to ensure that the entire team moves as one

• Sets and resets the bar on all things quality, from code through to data, and everything in between

• Deep empathy for your users of your data products, leading to a constant focus on removing friction, increasing adoption, and delivering business results

• Prunes and prioritizes work in order to maximize your contributions and impact

• Bias for action and leading by example

• Past experience in building enterprise data products that have a high level of governance and compliance requirements

Optional Skills

• Familiarity with open source or inner source development and processes

• Familiarity of data mesh architectural principles

• Experience with Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow / Astronomer

Personal qualities and communication

• Communication skills and experience in interacting with cross functional business and engineering teams

• Capability in undertaking business needs analysis in direct consultation

• Motivated with a passion for quality, learning and contributing to collective goals

• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills