Principal Data Engineer, Big Data

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobilityAt Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility. We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience. Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

The Role

• Lead Data Engineer and architect  to design, implement a highly scalable system to ingest and process Petabytes of data per day.  
• Hands-on design and develop applications for data pipeline and data management.  
• Set processes and policies for data governance and data pipeline 
• Architect and implement best practices of big data tools such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Presto and Cassandra 
• Lead and mentor junior Data and BI engineers. 
• Set and define the standards and best practices in data team  
• Be the point of reference for solving challenging technical problem.  
• Architect and implement  Machine Learning Pipelines for Data Science team.  

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters in Software Engineering and Computer Science 
• +8 years of experience in design and development of large scale data platforms 
• Expert in containerization, including Docker and Kubernetes 
• Expert in tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Presto 
• Proficient in Spark development with PySpark or Scala 
• Expert in Data streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka 
• Expert in design and implement reliable, scalable, and performant distributed systems and data pipelines 
• Extensive programming and software engineering  experience, especially in Java, Python, and/or C++ 
• Experience with running large-scale distributed computing infrastructure such as load balancing, Zookeeper, Micro service architecture    
• Experienced in security and access management 
• Experience with managing distributed databases like Elasticsearch, Cassandra  
• Experience with Columnar database such as Redshift, Vertica 
• Great verbal and written communication skills.  

At Lucid, we don’t just welcome diversity - we celebrate it! Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.
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