Principal Data Engineer – Talent Network Opportunity

About FullStack

FullStack is the most transparent IT talent network, connecting highly skilled individuals with top global companies and Silicon Valley startups for remote, on-demand projects. We focus on building a trusted, high-performance network where talent can thrive in a positive, respectful, and supportive environment. By prioritizing transparency, fair opportunities, and professional growth, we empower our engineers to deliver their best work while collaborating with innovative teams worldwide.

We’re Most Proud Of:

• Offering life-changing opportunities for talented software professionals across the Americas.
• Enhancing highly-skilled software development teams of the world’s greatest companies.
• Our 4.2-star rating on GlassDoor.
• Our client Net Promoter Score of 68 (twice the industry average).

The Opportunity

Join our talent network and connect with U.S. clients for flexible, project-based development work as a Principal Data Engineer.

You will:

• Integrate directly into your client’s team.
• Work alongside their existing designers and engineers daily.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Advanced English proficiency (excellent oral and written communication skills required).
• Completion of a four-year college degree, mandatory.
• Extensive experience building, maintaining, and scaling large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructures in production.
• Strong generalist background in software engineering principles, focusing on architectural trade-offs and systems design over tool-specific expertise.
• Experience as a technical anchor, including:
  • Leveling up team members.
  • Driving technical alignment across initiatives.
• Track record in:
  • Designing, modeling, and optimizing complex backend data structures and pipelines (SQL and NoSQL).
  • Operating cloud infrastructure and managing data engineering workflows in production.
• Ability to:
  • Reason through system designs aloud.
  • Collaborate across cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Translate business goals into robust engineering execution.
• Experience:
  • Troubleshooting new/difficult issues.
  • Contributing to open-source or proprietary libraries as needed.
  • Developing continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• A forensic attention to detail.
• Positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience continuously solving challenges on large, complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to take extreme ownership of tasks, ensuring daily adherence to agreed-upon expectations.
• Alignment with the goals of FullStack’s clients, with commitment to delivering on agreed commitments.