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Principal Engineer

Kollasoft Inc.Toronto, ON🇺🇸United StatesPosted 28 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Leader

Job Description

Role : Principal Engineer
Location : Toronto ( Hybrid, 3 days/week in office ) Job Description
  • Experience in designing and operating a Data Platform from ingestion to consumption.
  • Take full ownership of data platform operations and customer delivery.
  • Ensure the platform is stable, and value is delivered to its tenants.
  • Direct guidance to a small team of solution engineers as they address various data platform challenges.
  • Responsibilities will include technical guidance and/or creative work arounds for platform temporary limitations.
  • Monitor health and user FinOps statistics, cost optimization and customer satisfaction.
  • Expert level in one or more programming languages (i.e. Java, Python, Javascript, Scala).
  • Exposure with AKS/Docker, Virtual Machines, streaming, API development and more.
  • Design/Research/Implement required process components to enable Azure functionalities (i.e. Unity Catalog, Azure Purview).
  • Experience with 3rd party vendors is a plus (i.e. Dremio / Confluent Kafka).
  • Exceptional communication skills and ability to coordinate and liaison with multiple parties involved to align to strategic data platform and execution of needed components.
  • Ability to create Architectural diagrams with networking focus and system design.
  • Experience in PaaS offerings from Azure / Google Cloud Platform / Databricks
  • Must be able to lead complex projects and competing priorities with a high level of technical acumen and strong communication skills.
  • Analyze all platform level changes, monitor application impact, and provide appropriate technical solutions to resolve all issues quickly and efficiently.
  • Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
  • Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities.
  • Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work.
  • Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
  • Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability.
  • Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events.
Qualifications

Required:
  • Undergraduate Degree in Engineering or Technical Certificate.
  • 8+ years relevant experience.
  • Azure Cloud Knowledge (Azure Data Lake, Managed Identities, Service Principals)
  • Experience with CI/CD or DevOPs working with Azure.
  • Hands-on experience developing and managing data solutions using Databricks.
  • Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
  • Strong experience deploying, orchestrating, and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes.
  • Expert knowledge one or many of the follow (Java, Python, JavaScript).
  • Experience operating in a cloud environment.
  • Willingness and strength in providing guidance and influencing multiple teams across a broad spectrum of initiatives and functional domains.
Desired:
  • Azure Databricks CLI
  • Azure Resource Management REST API experience
  • Github Actions CI/CD

Skills

Docker
Scala
Agile
Azure
Databricks
GitHub Actions
Google Cloud
Java
JavaScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
REST
Terraform
Unity

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