Doma Technology LLC - Principal Data Platform Engineer

• 8+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with a track record at Staff or Principal IC level. • Proven experience building large-scale distributed data systems in production. • Deep hands-on cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable) with IaC and CI/CD (Terraform or comparable). • Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals across streaming and relational/warehouse patterns. • Production depth in at least one orchestration tool and one streaming/ingestion stack. • Experience designing cross-regional database replication architectures, including failover and consistency trade-offs. • Warehouse and mart modeling with a transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable). • Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for automation and tooling. • Track record of owning ambiguous, cross-team problems end to end from approach through delivery. • Kubernetes for data workloads or equivalent container orchestration. • Table/lakehouse formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi) and judgment on where they fit against a warehouse. • Data-quality frameworks (Great Expectations, Soda) and production observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog). • Schema registries and event contracts (Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema). • Catalog and discovery tooling (Microsoft Purview, DataHub, Collibra, or similar). • GitOps tooling (Flux, ArgoCD) and FinOps practices. • Practical data governance: PII identification, lineage, encryption, and a sane access model for regulated data. • Familiarity with MCPs (Model Context Protocol) and exposing data to AI systems safely. • Background in fast-paced, high-growth environments with hard delivery deadlines. • Cloud & Infrastructure • Cloud IaaS: Azure (primary), AWS or GCP transferable • IaC: Terraform or comparable; git-backed, automated delivery • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar • Data Platform & Streaming • Orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar • Streaming & ingestion: Kafka, Flink, Airbyte, or similar • CDC, event streaming, batch ingestion, schema registries, and event contracts • Warehouse: Snowflake or comparable; transformation/semantic layer (dbt or comparable); mart modeling • Catalog and table/lakehouse formats (decisions in flight) • Governance & Security • PII classification/labeling, lineage, change management, data-access model, encryption for regulated client data • Secret management: Azure Key Vault or similar • Programming & Observability • Python, Go, or similar; SQL; YAML/JSON/HCL for IaC and pipelines • Metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and data-quality monitoring for pipelines and platform services • What We Screen For Beyond the Technical Bar • Written-first communication - designs, ADRs, and runbooks live in the repo. • Ownership and bias to action - you drive ambiguous problems to working systems without waiting for the next step. • Influence without authority - you build consensus and can hold the line on governance when it matters. • Principled prioritization - you protect the critical path and can explain why you said no. • Stakeholder and executive communication - you translate complex technical reality into clear risk, cost, and timeline. • Mentorship - you level up the engineers around you through design reviews, pairing, and documentation. • Self-awareness and collaboration - you know your edges and partner well across application, analytics, SRE, and security. • Shown below is the lowest to highest base salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.  An employee’s pay position within the base salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.  At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. • This job is also eligible for the following compensation components: Bonus & Equity • The base salary range for this role is shown below: • $170,000—$235,000 USD • How we’ll value you and make your life a bit easier: • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non-contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave. • Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. • We believe the most valuable investment we can make is to build an outstanding team of colleagues and leaders who are passionate about our mission. • We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees: • Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)! • 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity) • Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family’s needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment • Health Savings Account (HSA) • 401K with company match program • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance • Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance • We believe in Equal Opportunity