Principal Data Engineer at DigiCert Inc

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Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

14 Apr, 26

Salary

185000.0

Posted On

14 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Data Engineering, Data Processing, Machine Learning, Data Quality, Observability, Schema Evolution, Metadata Processing, Lineage Tracking, Data Storage Optimization, Big Data Tools, Pipeline Management, Workflow Management, Python, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Monitoring Dashboards

Industry

Computer and Network Security

Description

Who we are We're a leading, global security authority that's disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands, the world's largest companies, the major cloud providers, entire country financial systems, entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. That's digital trust for the real world. Principal Data Engineer (DigiCert, Inc., Lehi, UT) Architect and contribute to the design of distributed data processing systems, focusing on modularity, reusability, and fault tolerance. Collaborate on design reviews and provide input into architectural decisions to help evolve the data platform and support new analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases. Develop framework-level components for data quality, observability, and recovery, enabling self-service capabilities across teams. Standardize and implement patterns for incremental data processing, ensuring consistency, idempotency, and scalability. Design and implement schema evolution strategies, metadata-driven processing, and lineage tracking to support auditability and regulatory requirements. Optimize data storage formats, partitioning strategies, and compute resource utilization for cost-effective performance at scale. Contribute to the technical roadmap by evaluating new technologies and proposing architectural improvements aligned with long-term platform goals. Collaborate with product, compliance, and platform teams to design reusable data interfaces and contract-driven ingestion frameworks. Salary: $147,000 - $185,000 per year. LOCATION: DigiCert, Inc. 2801 North Thanksgiving Way Suite 500 Lehi, UT 84043 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, Data Platform Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or any occupation/position/job title working in in hybrid deployments. Must also have the following special skills: 4 years of professional experience designing, building and optimizing large scale data pipelines; 4 years of professional experience utilizing big data tools including Spark, Kafka, PySpark, and Databricks; 4 years of professional experience utilizing pipeline and workflow management tools including Airflow, and working with stream-processing systems including Spark-streaming; 4 years of professional experience working with object-oriented and object function scripting languages including Python and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) including Jenkins; 4 years of professional experience building monitoring dashboards including; Grafana; 4 years of professional experience performing change data capture (CDC) streaming for NoSQL databases; 4 years of professional experience performing root cause analysis and processes to answer business questions and identify opportunities for improvement; and 4 years of professional experience with message queuing, stream processing, and high scalable data stores. CONTACT: Submit resume online at: https://www.digicert.com/careers; or via email to kayley.king@digicert.com. Must specify job code (ABDA). LINK TO EMPLOYEE REFERRAL PROGRAM: This position is eligible for incentives under the Employee Referral Program. DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all of our full-time employees. DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran’s status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified person with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

The Principal Data Engineer will architect and design distributed data processing systems while collaborating on design reviews and architectural decisions. They will also develop framework-level components for data quality and observability, and optimize data storage formats and compute resource utilization.