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Hims & Hers, a NYSE-traded health and wellness platform, is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to serve as the most senior individual contributor on the Data Platform Engineering (DPE) team. This is an organization-wide scope role responsible for defining and aligning the architectural vision for the data platform with business goals in partnership with product, engineering, and data science leadership.
You will own the long-term technical architecture across ingestion, orchestration, event streaming, and platform infrastructure serving millions of patients across telehealth, prescription, and wellness products. Key responsibilities include:
- Architecting and owning the CDC-based streaming platform (Kafka → Flink → BigQuery), orchestration platform strategy, and lower environment infrastructure
- Chairing Architecture Review Committee decisions and serving as primary technical DRI for cross-team, multi-system, and cost-impacting changes
- Establishing engineering standards and production readiness criteria across all DPE systems, including testing, CI/CD patterns, observability, data contracts, and Schema Registry governance
- Owning data quality and observability architecture, including dbt anomaly detection, schema validation, and data drift alerting
- Defining technical strategy for self-service analytics and reducing DPE bottlenecks
- Evaluating and governing DPE-managed tooling (Fivetran, Confluent, etc.) including contract and cost management
- Owning data sharing, egress patterns, and reverse ETL (Hightouch) governance
- Driving cost governance for platform infrastructure across BigQuery, orchestration, and cloud spend
- Leading incident response for platform P1/P2 incidents and driving systemic fixes
- Mentoring Staff and Senior Data Engineers and raising technical standards
- Partnering cross-functionally on ML-ready, HIPAA/GDPR-compliant, and hardened platform capabilities
- Contributing hands-on to critical path work
The platform runs on GCP BigQuery, Airflow on Astronomer/EKS, dbt, Confluent Kafka, Databricks Delta Lake, and Terraform/OpenTofu, with active evolution including net-new streaming platforms and lower environment strategies.
