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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Octus's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 58% of Octus's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Octus
- high 16 stale, 0 reposted of 31 open
- Hiring momentum
- 47 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Octus's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Octus.
About this role
The Principal Data Engineer at Octus will design, develop, and lead scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines while also mentoring other engineers. This hands-on role involves architecting data infrastructure, managing AWS services, and ensuring data quality and reliability across various sources. The position requires collaboration with data analysts and backend engineers to align data strategies with business goals.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Octus as an employer.
What you need
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including SOLID design, modularity, and scalability.
- Expert proficiency in Python for data pipeline and automation development.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience optimizing complex queries and data models.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining cloud-native data pipelines on AWS (e.g., MWAA/Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Glue, S3, Redshift, etc.).
- Experience with data warehousing or lakehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).
- Experience implementing and managing Terraform or similar IaC frameworks.
Nice to have
- Exposure to streaming data technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink).
- Experience integrating data quality and observability tools (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, etc.).
- Familiarity with Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, or other data extraction frameworks for ingestion pipelines.
What you get
- Competitive health benefits
- Matched 401k and pension plans
- PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Gym subsidies
- Educational reimbursements for career development
Worth weighing
- Role includes some management duties, which may not appeal to all individual contributors.
- No specific salary mentioned in the posting.
- The focus on AWS services may limit exposure to other cloud platforms.
- The position requires extensive experience, which may be a barrier for less experienced candidates.
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Listed by Octus on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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