hims-and-hers - Principal Data Engineer

• 15+ years of professional experience designing, building, and owning data platform architecture at company scale • Demonstrated ability to define and align architectural vision with business goals across an entire engineering organization • Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms across GCP primary (BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow); AWS operational familiarity required (EKS-based Airflow) - BigQuery strongly preferred; multi-cloud fluency is required, not a plus • Hands-on experience with the modern data stack: experience governing dbt at platform scale, Airflow/Astronomer, Kafka/Confluent, Databricks/Spark, Fivetran, and data sharing/activation platforms (Hightouch or equivalent) • Experience designing and operating event streaming pipelines at scale - including Schema Registry, data contracts, and consumer lag management • Proven track record establishing engineering standards across multiple teams and driving adoption without direct authority • Experience owning data quality frameworks - dbt testing, anomaly detection, schema validation, and data observability tooling • Experience with data governance and compliance frameworks in a regulated environment - HIPAA/PHI handling, data classification, access controls, audit logging, and GDPR • Experience leading incident response for data platform outages - blameless RCA, systemic root cause identification, and operational improvement • Infrastructure-as-code fluency - Terraform or equivalent; you treat infrastructure changes like software changes • Strong Python and SQL skills; comfortable writing, reviewing, and raising the bar on production-grade pipeline code • Clear written communication: you produce design docs and RFCs that build alignment, not confusion. Comfort operating in ambiguity - you define the path, you don't wait for it to be defined • Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake in production at scale • Experience with CDC (Change Data Capture) patterns and Flink for real-time data processing • PySpark/SparkSQL for large-scale batch and streaming workloads • Experience driving a BigQuery → Databricks Lakehouse migration or equivalent cloud data warehouse migration • Experience with MLOps - partnering with ML engineers on model training pipelines, feature stores, and experimentation infrastructure • Go or Python service development for Kafka producers and consumers • Experience at a direct-to-consumer healthcare or telehealth company with HIPAA and GDPR obligations • Familiarity with SOX compliance controls in a data engineering context • OUR BENEFITS (THERE ARE MORE BUT HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS): • Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles • Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) • 401k benefits with employer matching contribution • Offsite team retreats • Hims considers all qualified applicants for employment, including applicants with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act, and any similar state or local fair chance laws. • It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. • Hims & Hers is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected] and describe the needed accommodation. Your privacy is important to us, and any information you share will only be used for the legitimate purpose of considering your request for accommodation. Hims & Hers gives consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to any protected status, including disability. Please do not send resumes to this email address. • To learn more about how we collect, use, retain, and disclose Personal Information, please visit our Global Candidate Privacy Statement https://www.hims.com/global-candidate-privacy-statement.