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# Principal Engineer (Data Platform)

- **Company:** Vimeo, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Release Automation, Automation of Tests, Big Data, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Delivery Pipeline, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Data Programming, Performance Monitor, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/principal-engineer-data-platform-sovrn-com-8254620

## About the Role

* Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science or relevant field
 * 8+ years' experience, including team leadership
 * Excellent understanding of real time and batch pipelines, big data, data pipelines, and/or data lakes
 * An analytical mindset with problem-solving skills
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills
 * Ability to understand business domain and translate to data platform services

## Description

* Design real time and batch pipeline according to business data requirements and service level objectives
 * Specify data platform components and configurations required for data pipeline implementation
 * Baseline pipeline performance to achieve scalability
 * Implement data pipeline metrics to monitor performance, accuracy
 * Identify, prioritize, and execute pipeline improvements
 * Partner with feature team engineering, data science, and external data partners to enable business deliverables
 * Lead engineering for standardized data services layer
 * Partner with Release automation engineering for deployment pipelines
 * Partner with QA automation engineering to validate pipelines
 * Troubleshoot systemic issues and lead improvements


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