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# Principal - Data Engineer

- **Company:** Georgia Tek Systems
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Queries, DevOps, PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Parquet, Scripting, Apache Spark, Pyspark, Databricks
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/principal-data-engineer-bellevue-wa-hybrid-bellevue-wa--14a11f38-8c78-4c44-8ab6-31faaa99caae

## About the Role

* Azure experience - ADF for orchestration, ADLS for storage, AzureDevOps for CI/CD
 * Databricks experience - all compute/ETL leverages Databricks and is programmed leveraging Spark (PySpark, SparkSQL)
 * PowerShell experience - this is our scripting language of choice
 * SQL proficiency - it's used everywhere (TSQL, PostgreSQL)
 * Proficiency with parquet and delta formats
Additionally - they will need experience in:

 * SDLC + CI/CD - we follow a standard deployment process (dev, test, prod) that includes peer reviewed code. They need to be comfortable with standard DevOps practices.
 * Should have a deep understanding of indexes and partitioning.
 * Should be proficient optimizing code for performance (able to read a DAG, determine where CBO is using most resources)
 * Should be proficient in writing code in a matter that it can run repeatedly and produce the same state (we have a custom SQL Deployment framework)

Skills:
Code Reviews, Computer Programming, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), DevOps, Microsoft Transact-SQL (T-SQL), Microsoft Windows Azure, Performance Tuning/Optimization, PostgreSQL, Product Testing, SQL (Structured Query Language), Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), United States Citizen, Windows PowerShell

Georgia Tek Systems