Principal Data Engineer

About Medical Guardian

Medical Guardian is a fast-growing digital health and safety company on a mission to help people live a life without limits. With 13 consecutive years on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies, we are redefining what it means to age confidently and independently.

We support over 625,000 members nationwide with life-saving emergency response systems and remote patient monitoring solutions. Trusted by families, healthcare providers, and care managers, our work is powered by a culture of innovation, compassion, and purpose.

Mission

This role is focused on building and leading the data engineering foundation that powers real-time decisioning, operational applications, analytics, ML/AI model development, and data services across Medical Guardian.

The Principal Data Engineer will own the design, delivery, and maturity of production-grade data pipelines and data platforms, with a primary emphasis on real-time streaming, IoT telemetry, Databricks, Azure, data services for APIs and microservices, and reliable data products for downstream consumption.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical and people leader for data engineering, data platform architecture, real-time streaming, and production data services. This role will focus on designing, building, operating, and improving data pipelines and data products while also bringing principal-level judgment to architecture, stakeholder shaping, delivery priorities, team management, and production readiness.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role first. The ideal candidate should be comfortable spending significant time working directly with Databricks, Spark, SQL, Python/PySpark, Azure services, streaming architectures, data quality frameworks, pipeline automation, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting. They should also be able to operate with the maturity of a principal-level leader: shaping unclear re...