Principal Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Location: Remote, United States; company location: Carlsbad, CA, United States

Salary: USD 181,000–242,000 per year; bonus eligible

Company

hirify.global creates athletic apparel designed for movement, exercise, and everyday wear, with a casual coastal California aesthetic.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale data pipelines across raw/src, staging, curated, and serving layers for analytics consumption.
• Build and maintain Azure Data Factory pipelines, data flows, linked services, integration runtimes, and triggers for ingestion and transformation.
• Design ingestion patterns for REST/SOAP APIs, CSV and fixed-width files, JSON, XML, SFTP, and blob-based sources.
• Develop resilient extraction logic for pagination, rate limiting, authentication, incremental or delta pulls, schema drift, validation, reprocessing, and backfills.
• Parse and flatten nested JSON structures into relational models in Snowflake and contribute to CI/CD deployment across development, UAT, and production environments.
• Set technical standards for pipeline design, code quality, and testing; mentor data engineers and collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, including pipelines, data flows, linked services, integration runtimes, and triggers.
• Experience extracting and normalizing heterogeneous data from REST APIs, flat files, JSON/XML, and SFTP or blob-based drops.
• Experience writing extraction logic with pagination, API-key or OAuth authentication, and incremental synchronization patterns.
• Experience parsing and modeling semi-structured or nested JSON data in a cloud data warehouse, such as Snowflake VARIANT and FLATTEN.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field, including experience at a senior or technical lead level.
• Strong SQL proficiency and strong proficiency in at least one data engineering language: Python, Scala, or Java.
• Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with analytics, product, and engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or ARM/Bicep and broader CI/CD practices.
• Exposure to real-time analytics or streaming technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Health insurance and an employee assistance program.
• Savings and retirement plan.
• Paid time off.
• hirify.global discount, industry perks, and wellness and fitness benefits.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employment practices.