Overview
Hi Marley is hiring a Principal Data Engineer to serve as the technical lead as we expand our data engineering capabilities. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll guide the short- and long-term evolution of our data systems—enhancing the infrastructure that powers internal analytics and customer-facing intelligence. You'll collaborate across product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is structured, secure, and ready to support our continued growth. As an early technical leader, you'll build scalable pipelines, platform capabilities, and infrastructure that enable trusted insights. You'll also help shape how engineering and analytics collaborate and guide the evolution of the broader data organization. This is a chance to define how data powers Hi Marley's products, insights, and decision-making—delivering performance, compliance, and lasting business impact.
Note: The original mentions joining the Boston office two days per week as part of our culture. This statement has been retained in spirit where it appears in the role description; see the responsibilities and qualifications for specific expectations.
What You'll Do
Platform & Infrastructure
- Lead Data Platform Strategy and Architecture – Define and deliver a data platform roadmap that supports near-term needs and long-term scale, enabling insights, innovation, and customer value across our products and analytics ecosystem.
- Design and Build Scalable Data Infrastructure in AWS – Build robust systems within an AWS environment to ingest, transform, store, and serve data across multi-tenant and single-tenant use cases, balancing flexibility, security, and performance.
- Deliver Trusted Data Pipelines – Develop reliable and observable pipelines using modern batch and near real-time approaches, connecting internal and external data sources.
- Champion Data Trust and Visibility – Advance practices in data quality, observability, and governance, ensuring systems are secure, compliant, auditable, and built to meet customer and regulatory expectations.
Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner to Enable Insights – Work with analytics and product teams to deliver structured, reliable data pipelines that support dashboards, customer-facing analytics, and research, providing a trusted foundation for downstream insights.
Leadership & Growth
- Mentor and Influence Engineering Culture – Provide guidance, share knowledge, and lead by example to establish best practices and grow the data engineering function.
- Shape a Scalable Future – Partner with cross-functional leaders to define and evolve a data platform roadmap that grows with customers, products, and teams.
What We're Looking For
- Data Engineering Expertise – 7+ years of experience building reliable, performant data systems, including data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and warehouse optimization.
- Scaled Platform Leadership – Experience growing data infrastructure through stages of scale, maturing internal systems, guiding platform modernization, or supporting enterprise-level requirements in growth.
- Deep Experience with AWS – Proven track record designing, building, and operating data systems in AWS (e.g., Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM) and optimizing performance, security, and cost in cloud architectures.
- Proficiency with Modern Tools – Comfortable with SQL and Python (or similar), and hands-on experience with tools like dbt, Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake, or other cloud data platforms.
- Trust, Security & Governance Focus – Experience designing systems with built-in privacy, access controls, and governance. Familiarity with secure data handling, regulatory compliance, and data classification in multi-tenant or regulated environments.
- Collaborative and Strategic Mindset – Ability to work across product, engineering, and analytics teams to shape systems that deliver long-term value.
- Customer-Facing Data Enablement – Bonus: Experience designing backend systems that power customer-facing analytics or data-driven product features.
- Supportive Leadership Style – A mentoring mindset and enthusiasm for helping others grow while building a collaborative, inclusive culture.
At this time, we are only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require sponsorship now or in the future.
Who We Are
Hi Marley has three core values that are the foundation of our company culture, which every employee embodies:
- Max Courage – we encourage our team, our customers, and their customers to dream big, try new ideas and maximize impact by measuring risk.
- Be Humble – we lead with appreciation and promote a culture of humility, compassion and openness to learn from anyone, anywhere.
- Ubuntu I am because we are – we believe true success is bigger than any single individual or company. By aligning our individual aims behind a shared purpose we can achieve our fullest potential, together.
Benefits and Perks
On top of an exciting, supportive and intellectually curious workplace, we provide:
- Full benefits package for employees working 30+ hours per week, including parental leave, a matching 401k program, and medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Open vacation policy – we all work hard and take time for ourselves when we need it
- Competitive salary and generous stock options - we all get to own a piece of what we're building
- A fun, lively startup culture
- Core values-based leadership
- A culture of employee engagement, and inclusion
- Ample opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup
Hi Marley is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We celebrate and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building an inclusive work environment representing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, where all employees are encouraged to be their authentic selves.
Hi Marley participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information, please review the documents under E-Verify Poster here:
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