Join Flo, the world's #1 health & fitness app, as a Principal Data Platform Engineer. Drive cross-team technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and shape the future of data infrastructure for 400M+ users globally.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software/data engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems and data platforms
- Proven technical leadership with track record of driving organization-level technical strategy and architecture
- Expert-level mastery of data engineering technologies (Spark, Databricks, cloud platforms, orchestration, streaming, governance, etc.)
- Deep production experience building and scaling Data Lakehouse platforms (Databricks Unity Catalog strongly preferred)
- Strong architectural skills designing systems for scalability, reliability, and performance at petabyte scale
- Advanced understanding of data governance, security, and compliance in regulated environments
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering practices across teams
- Exceptional communication skills - ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
- Track record of making sound technical decisions with organization-wide impact
- Experience managing platform costs and optimizing infrastructure spend
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual reviews
- Opportunity to participate in Flo’s performance incentive scheme
- Paid holiday, sick leave, and female health leave
- Enhanced parental leave and pay for maternity, paternity, same-sex and adoptive parents
- Accelerated professional growth through world-changing work and learning support
- Flexible office + home working, up to 2 months a year working abroad
- 5-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year Floversary
- Flo Premium for friends & family, plus more health, pension and wellbeing perks