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Principal Data Platform Engineer Jobs in East Rutherford, NJ

Tatari

Senior Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY

$114K - $157K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability, stability, and operational health of our data platform - including how it is deployed, monitored, maintained, and promoted ...

Tatari

Senior Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$116K - $157K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability, stability, and operational health of our data platform - including how it is deployed, monitored, maintained, and promoted ...

Avantos, Inc

Senior Data and Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$116K - $157K/yr

Senior Data & Platform Engineer NYC (Hybrid) or US Remote | Competitive + Equity About Avantos Avantos is building the AI-native operating system for financial services - transforming fragmented data ...

Gemini

Senior Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$116K - $157K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

Senior Data Platform Engineer As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll be an SRE for our data infrastructure: responsible for the reliability, automation, and operability of the database and ...

Gemini

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$116K - $158K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

Senior Data Platform Engineer As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll be an SRE for our data infrastructure: responsible for the reliability, automation, and operability of the database and ...

Gemini

Senior Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$116K - $157K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

Senior Data Platform Engineer As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll be an SRE for our data infrastructure: responsible for the reliability, automation, and operability of the database and ...

Farther

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$125K - $150K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Role As an AI-Native Data Platform Engineer at Farther, you will design and own the canonical data foundations powering our financial AI systems. This role sits at the core of our platform ...

Salesforce, Inc.

Principal Knowledge Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$197.30 - $313.70/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

Principal Data Engineer (PMTS) - MDMSkip to main content#Principal Data Engineer (PMTS) - MDM page ... The platform will serve as the foundational knowledge layer connecting enterprise data, business ...

Radar Labs, Inc

Senior / Staff Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$200K - $300K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About the role We're looking for a Data Platform Engineer to build out the next generation of our data platform . The ideal candidate has been a data platform engineer on a large system and is ...

Farther

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY

$125K - $150K/yr

The Role As an AI-Native Data Platform Engineer at Farther, you will design and own the canonical data foundations powering our financial AI systems. This role sits at the core of our platform ...

Farther

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$125K - $150K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

  • PTO

The Role As an AI-Native Data Platform Engineer at Farther, you will design and own the canonical data foundations powering our financial AI systems. This role sits at the core of our platform ...

Appgate

Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform

Manhattan, NY · On-site +1

$148K - $198K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

As we expand our platform, we are building a Data + AI team to unlock the next generation of ... software/data engineering, with at least 3 years in a Staff, Principal, or Architect-level role.

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As of Aug 17, 2026, the average yearly pay for principal data platform engineer in East Rutherford, NJ is $149,996.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $120,700.00 and $176,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Principal Data Platform Engineer vs Data Engineer?

AspectPrincipal Data Platform EngineerData Engineer
CredentialsBachelor's/Master's in CS, Data Science, or related; often with certifications in cloud platformsBachelor's in CS, Data Science, or related; certifications are common but not mandatory
Work EnvironmentDesigns and oversees data platform architecture, leads technical strategyBuilds, maintains, and optimizes data pipelines and databases
Employer & Industry UsageUsed in large tech, finance, and enterprise companies focusing on scalable data solutionsCommon across industries for data processing and analytics tasks

The Principal Data Platform Engineer focuses on designing and leading the development of data platforms, ensuring scalability and performance. In contrast, Data Engineers primarily build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure. Both roles require strong technical skills, but the Principal role involves strategic oversight and architecture leadership.

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Staff / Principal Data Engineer

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc.

New York, NY • On-site

$180 - $270/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 6 days ago

Job description

About the Role

We are building an AI-native data platform that powers fraud detection and response across 360 Fraud Protection. We are hiring a Staff or Principal Data Engineer to own the data platform and data lake at the heart of that work. You work hands-on and own the domain end-to-end, alongside a small group of senior engineers, data scientists and product partners.

  • Owns the unified data platform and data lake that powers detection and response across 360 Fraud Protection.
  • Every detection model and downstream AI capability depends on this data foundation, which makes it one of the highest-leverage engineering roles on the team.
  • Stronger, broader and more reliable fraud signal directly improves detection accuracy, reduces customer losses and protects brand trust.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the design, build and operation of the data lake and ingestion platform end-to-end, from architecture through production reliability.
  • Build low-latency batch and streaming pipelines that ingest signals from internal and external sources, normalize them to a common schema, enrich them with context and serve model-ready data to the layers above.
  • Make adding a new data source a routine task rather than a project, so our view of risk keeps widening over time.
  • Establish data quality, freshness, completeness, lineage and observability so the platform is trustworthy enough to automate on top of.
  • Build data pipelines that ground generative AI, including unstructured text and threat intelligence processing, embedding generation, vector storage and retrieval.
  • Own deployment, CI/CD and operational reliability of the platform on Kubernetes.
  • Partner with data science, product and architecture to turn the platform into a shared foundation across 360 Fraud Protection.

Required Qualifications

  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale data platforms and data lakes, with comfort working at high data volumes.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Apache Spark, Apache Flink and modern big-data systems.
  • Proven command of best practices for building and maintaining data pipelines in both batch and streaming modes.
  • Strong production engineering skills across the full delivery lifecycle, including Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling, with the ability to ship end-to-end.
  • A track record of owning data infrastructure end-to-end with limited supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with generative AI and embedding models, including embedding pipelines, vector databases and retrieval.
  • A cybersecurity or threat intelligence background, with hands-on exposure to threat types such as phishing, mobile threats and malware.
  • Familiarity with transaction data and transaction fraud signals.

Compensation

  • Base salary range: $180 - $270
  • Bonus / commission: 15%

Travel

  • Minimal travel expected. This is an on-site role based in New York City, with 3-4 days per week in the office.

AppGate is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a federal contractor subject to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 as amended, and their corresponding regulations. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.  Further, AppGate is an affirmative action employer committed to taking positive steps to employ, advance in employment and otherwise afford equal employment opportunity to protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.  In furtherance of AppGate's policy regarding affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, AppGate has developed a written affirmative action program. This program is available for review upon request by any applicant or employee during normal business hours by contacting the company's EEO Coordinator.

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