Principal Date Engineer

Daily Wire

Nashville · 10+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Experience
10+ years experience
Workplace
Onsite
Location
Nashville

About the role

  • Architect and drive the long-term vision for Daily Wire’s enterprise data ecosystem, including infrastructure, ingestion, storage, transformation, and real-time analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and drive the long-term vision for Daily Wire’s enterprise data ecosystem, including infrastructure, ingestion, storage, transformation, and real-time analytics.
  • Lead the design and implementation of distributed systems, high-availability APIs, event streams, and real-time data pipelines.
  • Build resilient, production-grade backend services and data workflows using Python or Go and advanced SQL.
  • Design and scale Snowflake data warehouses and layered dbt models that transform complex operational data into reliable data products.
  • Partner with product and analytics leaders to establish event schemas, tracking standards, and unified semantic layers.
  • Architect and operate production machine-learning infrastructure, low-latency inference systems, and feedback loops that power content discovery and personalization.
  • Establish architectural and operational standards for testing, observability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Provide technical leadership across AWS cloud infrastructure, containerized services, architecture reviews, code mentorship, and incident response.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics infrastructure, or data-intensive platform development.
  • Advanced experience with Snowflake and dbt, including warehouse design, transformation architecture, testing, documentation, data lineage, query optimization, and cost governance.
  • Proven experience building and operating enterprise-grade platforms on AWS, including SageMaker and Personalize.
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, system observability, and production operations.
  • Experience with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Segment, AWS Kinesis, Kinesis Data Firehose, or Apache Flink.
  • Experience building pipelines that support machine-learning model training, serving, recommendation systems, and content personalization.
  • Knowledge of event-time processing, windowing, checkpointing, and schema evolution.
  • Experience creating analytics and reporting solutions using visualization tools such as Tableau.
  • Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with subscription media, streaming video, content discovery, payments, digital advertising, or high-growth consumer products is preferred.

Skills

  • Python
  • Go
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Dbt
  • AWS
  • SageMaker
  • Personalize
  • Kafka
  • Segment
  • AWS Kinesis
  • Kinesis Data Firehose
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  • Apache Flink
  • Tableau

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Principal Date Engineer

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