Principal Engineer, CoinDesk Data Engineering

Role Overview

As a Principal Engineer on the CoinDesk Data Engineering team, you will drive technical evolution, architect for the future, tackle foundational challenges, elevate engineering excellence, and champion cross-cutting initiatives. You will be responsible for developing and championing a cohesive, long-term technical roadmap that elevates our existing services towards a unified and scalable architectural vision.

What You Will Do

Drive Technical Evolution: Develop and champion a cohesive, long-term technical roadmap that elevates our existing services (internal, external, REST, streaming) towards a unified and scalable architectural vision. Architect for the Future: Lead the design of resilient, high-throughput systems, ensuring new solutions are not only robust and secure but also set the standard for future development across teams.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be expected to navigate the unknown, bring structure to ambiguity, and help shape the frameworks and processes that drive our global teams forward. We value engineers who treat development as a craft and own the outcome from concept to deployment.

Requirements

• 8+ years in backend development, with a proven track record in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership role
• Deep, hands-on experience designing, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with High Availability or sophisticated disaster recovery strategies for global, 24/7 financial systems
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use multiple languages in production environments (a proficiency in either Node.js or Golang)
• Strong practical experience with modern databases (e.g., Redis, PostgreSQL), including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning for high-throughput workloads
• A strong 'DevSecOps' mindset with expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and robust observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) for production systems
• A deep commitment to quality, demonstrated by implementing comprehensive testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end, performance) that ensure system reliability
• Exceptional communication skills with the proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, articulate complex architectural decisions, and build consensus across multiple teams

Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
• Nondiscriminatory treatment in employment