# Staff / Principal Data Engineer

**Company:** [Orum](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/orum)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Data Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, dbt, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Looker, Lookml, Kafka, GCP, Postgres, ETL, ELT, Distributed Systems, Data Governance
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a modern data platform spanning data engineering and analytics/BI. The role requires 8+ years of experience plus deep expertise in SQL, dbt, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Looker, streaming systems, and distributed data platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and drive the data platform architecture and technical roadmap.
- Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines from PostgreSQL, application systems, and event streams into ClickHouse, BigQuery, and other analytical systems.
- Design robust dbt transformation layers and reusable, well-documented data models.
- Own the reliability, performance, cost, and scalability of ClickHouse and BigQuery workloads.
- Build real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, product, and AI use cases, including large-scale event, call, transcript, and conversational data.
- Establish standards for data quality, testing, lineage, governance, and observability.
- Own the production Looker environment, including LookML models, explores, dashboards, permissions, and performance.
- Develop a trusted semantic layer with consistent company-wide metric and dimension definitions.
- Partner with Product, Finance, go-to-market, and Operations teams to translate business questions into scalable data models, dashboards, and self-service analytics.
- Support high-impact ad hoc analysis and establish processes for dashboard ownership, metric governance, and data literacy.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, platform engineering, or related data roles.
- Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, dimensional modeling, and analytics-oriented schema design.
- Hands-on experience with dbt and modern ELT architectures.
- Strong experience with analytical databases and warehouses such as ClickHouse and BigQuery.
- Experience owning or administering Looker in production, including LookML development and performance optimization.
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and data platform architecture.
- Ability to operate with high ownership, independently drive ambiguous initiatives, and communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

## Nice-to-haves
- Deep experience operating ClickHouse at scale.
- Experience owning or migrating a Looker implementation.
- Experience with product analytics or customer-facing analytics platforms.
- Familiarity with LLM infrastructure, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation systems, or AI data pipelines.
- Experience with conversational, telephony, or other large-scale unstructured datasets.
- Experience in high-growth startup environments.

## Benefits
- Flexible vacation policy.
- More than 30 paid holidays annually, including observed holidays, monthly company days off, and a year-end holiday break.
- Stock options.
- Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Parental leave.
- $1,000 equipment reimbursement.
- Company retreats and meetups.
- Employee resource group.

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