Daily Wire
Principal Date Engineer
- Location
- Nashville, TN, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Level
- Principal
- Posted
- 29 September 2026 (yesterday)
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About this role
Primary Responsibilities • Architect and drive the long-term vision for Daily Wire’s enterprise data ecosystem, including infrastructure, ingestion, storage, transformation, and real-time analytics.
• Lead the design and implementation of distributed systems, high-availability APIs, event streams, and real-time data pipelines.
• Build resilient, production-grade backend services and data workflows using Python or Go and advanced SQL.
• Design and scale Snowflake data warehouses and layered dbt models that transform complex operational data into reliable data products.
• Partner with product and analytics leaders to establish event schemas, tracking standards, and unified semantic layers.
• Architect and operate production machine-learning infrastructure, low-latency inference systems, and feedback loops that power content discovery and personalization.
• Establish architectural and operational standards for testing, observability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership across AWS cloud infrastructure, containerized services, architecture reviews, code mentorship, and incident response.
Experience & Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics infrastructure, or data-intensive platform development.
• Advanced experience with Snowflake and dbt, including warehouse design, transformation architecture, testing, documentation, data lineage, query optimization, and cost governance.
• Proven experience building and operating enterprise-grade platforms on AWS, including SageMaker and Personalize.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, system observability, and production operations.
• Experience with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Segment, AWS Kinesis, Kinesis Data Firehose, or Apache Flink.
• Experience building pipelines that support machine-learning model training, serving, recommendation systems, and content personalization.
• Knowledge of event-time processing, windowing, checkpointing, and schema evolution.
• Experience creating analytics and reporting solutions using visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Experience with subscription media, streaming video, content discovery, payments, digital advertising, or high-growth consumer products is preferred.
• Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Work location
- Nashville, TN, US
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Published 29 September 2026, last checked today. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.