Principal Data Engineer (Product Data)

Every mind is unique. Yet much of the world is still built for what's considered "normal," leaving too many people behind. At Everway, we change that by creating technology that helps everyone understand and be understood. By understanding and addressing the unique needs of each individual, we're creating a world where differences are recognized and valued.

Our careers fit real life. When you join us, you're not just taking a job. You're joining a movement to build a more neuroinclusive world. We're a global community of over 800 employees spanning North America, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. A career here is purposeful and fast-moving, with clear expectations, modern tools, and the clarity to focus on what matters most. Our people are supported and encouraged to show up as they are, with different ways of thinking welcomed and valued. We pride ourselves on our core values that are embedded within our culture. These are to be curious, have courage, and commit fully. Join us at Everway - together, we can unlock the full potential of every mind.

About the role: Everway is a growing EdTech SaaS business with a complex, multi-product data landscape. Our product data - the telemetry, usage, and engagement signals generated across our learning products - is how we understand what learners actually do, what works, and where we move the needle on outcomes. As our product portfolio grows through development and acquisition, the engineering work behind this data is becoming more complex, not less. We're looking for a Principal Data Engineer to bring permanent senior engineering depth into this domain.

You will be a hands-on senior IC, leading the design and delivery of product data products on our Databricks lakehouse - from high-volume event ingestion through to governed, contract-backed datasets consumed by analytics, product management, and downstream AI use cases. You will take on the hardest problems in the domain: event schema governance, identity resolution across products, sessionisation, and modelling product usage through to learner outcomes. This role reports to the VP of Product Data and sits within the wider Data Engineering function. You will contribute to the engineering standards that shape how the data team builds and operates. This is a senior IC role with deep technical authority and standards influence.

Main responsibilities:

• Design and deliver product data products on Databricks - owning ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across the medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) to produce certified datasets consumed across product, analytics, and the wider business.
• Lead the hard problems in the domain - event schema governance across multiple products, identity resolution and sessionisation, high-volume event pipelines, and modelling the path from product usage to engagement and learner outcomes.
• Define and evolve engineering standards - dbt patterns, event ingestion patterns, data contracts, testing, observability - and contribute to cross-cutting standards across the wider data function.
• Own data quality and contracts for the data products you ship - implementing quality checks, maintaining contracts as the interface between producers and consumers, and ensuring issues are caught early and remediated cleanly.
• Raise the technical bar around you - through code review, design input, pairing, and the kind of senior IC presence that lifts the engineers and analysts you work with.
• Translate operational complexity - multiple product event sources, schema drift, ongoing integration of acquired products - into clean, durable engineering execution the business can rely on.

Essential Criteria:

• 5+ years in data engineering, with demonstrable experience operating in a senior IC capacity.
• Hands-on production experience with Databricks.
• Hands-on experience with dbt.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Experience working with product, behavioural, or event-based data sources at scale.
• Track record of defining and applying engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, documentation, and observability.
• Experience operating in complex environments - multi-source event landscapes, high-volume pipelines, or platform migrations.
• Strong communication skills - credible with engineers, analysts, and senior product and business stakeholders, and able to translate technical decisions into business and product impact.

Desirable Criteria:

• Direct experience with product analytics or event-tracking platforms (e.g., Snowplow, Segment, Amplitude, Mixpanel) as data sources.
• Experience designing event schemas and managing schema evolution across multiple products.
• Familiarity with streaming or near-real-time ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Lakeflow).
• Familiarity with the wider Databricks ecosystem - Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, MetricFlow, DQX.
• Experience working within a data product operating model with defined contracts and SLAs.
• Background in SaaS or EdTech environments.
• Familiarity with modern BI tools (Tableau preferred) and how data is consumed downstream.

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