- Location
- Kitchener
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 14+ years
- Education
- PhD
- Source
- Lever
Description
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Engineer with a minimum of 14 years of experience to serve as a technical visionary and thought leader for the Acceldata Open Data Platform (ODP). In this role, you will define the long-term technical strategy, lead the most complex architectural initiatives, and represent Acceldata in the global open-source and distributed systems community. You will work directly with engineering leadership and executives to shape product direction while driving innovation across the organization.
This is a full-time, on-site position, open to candidates with valid work authorization.
Why Join Us
As a Principal Engineer at Acceldata, you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of enterprise data platforms. You'll define the technical vision for systems that power mission-critical workloads across the world's largest organizations. Your decisions will influence not just our platform, but the broader data ecosystem through open-source contributions and industry leadership.
You'll work alongside Apache members, committers, and industry veterans who are passionate about solving the hardest problems in distributed computing. This is a rare opportunity to combine deep technical impact with strategic influence, building technology that matters while shaping the direction of a growing company in the data observability space.