{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d6aa2c9fc46ca927df64b97a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d6aa2c9fc46ca927df64b97a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d6aa2c9fc46ca927df64b97a","title":"Principal Engineer, Platform Analytics","description":"Job Description:\nThe Principal Engineer, Platform Analytics is the senior technical owner of Platform Analytics — the customer-facing analytics experience to deliver a single, trustworthy source of truth for the metrics customers use to measure the learning progress. As a senior individual contributor on the team, they own the architecture and the critical technical decisions. This is a deeply hands-on role — they design, build, and operate the pipelines and serving layers themselves — spanning both the target-state platform-analytics architecture and the traditional data-engineering ELT that feeds it. They set the technical bar for the team, mentor junior engineers, and use AI coding tools fluently to build faster and better.\nWho you’re committed to being:\nYou lead by building, not managing.\nYou own outcomes, not just output.\nYou mentor without authority.\nYou treat AI tools as a craft, not a shortcut.\nYou hold a high bar for simplicity and rigor.\nWhat you’ll do:\nOwn the architecture of Platform Analytics and the key technical decisions while preserving the consistency guarantee and meeting its latency and freshness targets.\nDesign, build, and operate the data pipelines and serving layers hands-on: event ingestion and entity/reference ingestion into Snowflake, dbt-governed metric definitions, and a high-performance OLAP serving layer behind a single Analytics API.\nOwn production performance, reliability, and cost — performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, and resource management — for a customer-facing system.\nCurate and model source-system data into trusted, conformed datasets, applying dimensional modeling and engineering best practices.\nBuild and operate the traditional data-engineering ELT the product depends on to the same standard as the platform-analytics path.\nSet the technical bar for the team — code quality, design standards, and ways of working — and mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the team's ability to make and hold sound technical decisions.\nPartner with the Product Manager and stakeholders to sequence the architecture work ahead of the dependent product roadmap, and communicate technical direction and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nUse AI coding tools productively in daily engineering work — accelerating development, testing, and debugging — and help establish effective patterns for their use across the team.\nExperience you’ll bring:\nExperience building customer-facing analytics products where metric consistency across UI and API is a hard requirement.\nExperience taking a system from a launch/MVP design through to a scaled production architecture.\nFamiliarity with low-latency lookup stores (e.g., Redis) for instant-response use cases.\nRequirements:\nRequires a minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience; or 8+ years and an advanced degree.\nDeep, current, hands-on expertise designing and delivering data warehouses and analytical data platforms — including data curation, integration, metadata management, and data-quality processes — with the ability to do this work personally, not only direct it.\nExpert SQL development and performance tuning on analytical databases (e.g., Snowflake), with the judgment to hold low-latency, high-concurrency query performance at scale.\nExperience with streaming and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka) and with change-data-capture (CDC) ingestion for entity/reference data.\nExperience designing and operating a high-performance OLAP serving layer for customer- or product-facing analytics (e.g., ClickHouse), or strong transferable equivalent.\nExperience with dimensional data modeling and with source control, testing, and deployment workflows for ELT (e.g., dbt, git-based CI/CD).\nExperience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) for scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring of production data pipelines.\nDemonstrated ability to own architecture and make and hold the key technical decisions on a complex, business-critical system — exercising independent judgment on performance, reliability, scalability, and consistency.\nProductive, fluent use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work.\nExcellent communication skills — able to align engineers, partner with product and non-technical stakeholders, and mentor more junior engineers.\nThis is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.\nWhy you’ll love working here:\nWe work in a blended environment that supports collaboration, flexibility, and connection across teams.\nWe are mission-driven, shaping the future of tech upskillling and delivering impact that matters.\nWe foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can contribute and thrive.\nWe are always learning, creating an environment where you can take on new challenges, expand your skills, and grow with purpose.\nBenefits include competitive compensation, bonus eligibility, comprehensive medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursement, professional development funds, and more.\nAbout us:\nPluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.\nPhysical Requirements:\nThis role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work.\nEEOC & Accommodations Statement:\nBring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with EEOC guidelines and local laws.\nIf you need an accommodation to apply, interview, or perform essential job functions,\nPay Transparency:\nThe annual US base salary range for this role is $167,200 - $220,000 USD. Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors. Additional benefits and bonuses may apply.\nApplications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.\nRecruiting Scam Notice:\nPlease be aware of recruiting scams. We’ll only contact you from an @pluralsight.com email or verified channels. We never ask for sensitive personal info or payments as part of the hiring process. All openings are posted on our Careers page.\n#LI-SD1\n\nAbout Us\nPluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. 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As a senior individual contributor on the team, they own the architecture and the critical technical decisions. This is a deeply hands-on role — they design, build, and operate the pipelines and serving layers themselves — spanning both the target-state platform-analytics architecture and the traditional data-engineering ELT that feeds it. They set the technical bar for the team, mentor junior engineers, and use AI coding tools fluently to build faster and better.\nWho you’re committed to being:\nYou lead by building, not managing.\nYou own outcomes, not just output.\nYou mentor without authority.\nYou treat AI tools as a craft, not a shortcut.\nYou hold a high bar for simplicity and rigor.\nWhat you’ll do:\nOwn the architecture of Platform Analytics and the key technical decisions while preserving the consistency guarantee and meeting its latency and freshness targets.\nDesign, build, and operate the data pipelines and serving layers hands-on: event ingestion and entity/reference ingestion into Snowflake, dbt-governed metric definitions, and a high-performance OLAP serving layer behind a single Analytics API.\nOwn production performance, reliability, and cost — performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, and resource management — for a customer-facing system.\nCurate and model source-system data into trusted, conformed datasets, applying dimensional modeling and engineering best practices.\nBuild and operate the traditional data-engineering ELT the product depends on to the same standard as the platform-analytics path.\nSet the technical bar for the team — code quality, design standards, and ways of working — and mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the team's ability to make and hold sound technical decisions.\nPartner with the Product Manager and stakeholders to sequence the architecture work ahead of the dependent product roadmap, and communicate technical direction and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nUse AI coding tools productively in daily engineering work — accelerating development, testing, and debugging — and help establish effective patterns for their use across the team.\nExperience you’ll bring:\nExperience building customer-facing analytics products where metric consistency across UI and API is a hard requirement.\nExperience taking a system from a launch/MVP design through to a scaled production architecture.\nFamiliarity with low-latency lookup stores (e.g., Redis) for instant-response use cases.\nRequirements:\nRequires a minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience; or 8+ years and an advanced degree.\nDeep, current, hands-on expertise designing and delivering data warehouses and analytical data platforms — including data curation, integration, metadata management, and data-quality processes — with the ability to do this work personally, not only direct it.\nExpert SQL development and performance tuning on analytical databases (e.g., Snowflake), with the judgment to hold low-latency, high-concurrency query performance at scale.\nExperience with streaming and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka) and with change-data-capture (CDC) ingestion for entity/reference data.\nExperience designing and operating a high-performance OLAP serving layer for customer- or product-facing analytics (e.g., ClickHouse), or strong transferable equivalent.\nExperience with dimensional data modeling and with source control, testing, and deployment workflows for ELT (e.g., dbt, git-based CI/CD).\nExperience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) for scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring of production data pipelines.\nDemonstrated ability to own architecture and make and hold the key technical decisions on a complex, business-critical system — exercising independent judgment on performance, reliability, scalability, and consistency.\nProductive, fluent use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work.\nExcellent communication skills — able to align engineers, partner with product and non-technical stakeholders, and mentor more junior engineers.\nThis is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.\nWhy you’ll love working here:\nWe work in a blended environment that supports collaboration, flexibility, and connection across teams.\nWe are mission-driven, shaping the future of tech upskillling and delivering impact that matters.\nWe foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can contribute and thrive.\nWe are always learning, creating an environment where you can take on new challenges, expand your skills, and grow with purpose.\nBenefits include competitive compensation, bonus eligibility, comprehensive medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursement, professional development funds, and more.\nAbout us:\nPluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.\nPhysical Requirements:\nThis role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work.\nEEOC & Accommodations Statement:\nBring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with EEOC guidelines and local laws.\nIf you need an accommodation to apply, interview, or perform essential job functions,\nPay Transparency:\nThe annual US base salary range for this role is $167,200 - $220,000 USD. Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors. Additional benefits and bonuses may apply.\nApplications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.\nRecruiting Scam Notice:\nPlease be aware of recruiting scams. We’ll only contact you from an @pluralsight.com email or verified channels. We never ask for sensitive personal info or payments as part of the hiring process. All openings are posted on our Careers page.\n#LI-SD1\n\nAbout Us\nPluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. 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