Principal Data Engineer at Ledgebrook
- US
$180,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
- US
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role at an E&S insurance startup, responsible for owning the end-to-end architecture of the company's data platform — including pipeline design, data modeling, governance frameworks, and observability standards — built on Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Terraform. The role also involves mentoring engineers, setting team-wide engineering standards, and working directly with actuarial, finance, and product stakeholders to translate business needs into technical roadmap. Suits an experienced data or analytics engineer comfortable driving architectural decisions independently in an early-stage environment.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 490 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 290–730
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is explicitly titled and framed as 'Staff Data and Analytics Engineer,' with org-wide platform ownership, cross-functional technical direction-setting, and a mentorship/multiplier mandate — genuine Staff-level scope, not merely a long-tenured Senior.
SOC classification is a close call: the role centers on architecting and building data pipelines, data models, and platform infrastructure (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but also involves substantial software engineering — Python production systems, Terraform IaC, Airflow orchestration — that could support 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1243 was chosen as the primary because data architecture and modeling are the explicit core deliverables.
Airflow, dbt, Terraform, and Snowflake are listed in the Must Haves section with the qualifier 'or equivalents'; each is treated as a hard gate on the capability, with the named tool as primary. No specific named alternatives were provided in the posting, so well-known substitutes were not added to avoid speculation — the 'or equivalents' language is noted here instead.
AWS appears only in the Tech Stack narrative section, not in the Must Haves block, so it is marked preferred.
GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Slack appear only in the Tech Stack tools list; GitHub is included as preferred as the most technically relevant. Jira, Confluence, and Slack are collaboration tools, not technical skills, and were omitted.
Power BI, Tableau, and Looker are listed together under Nice to Have; Power BI is used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives.
SOC 2 and CCPA appear together under Nice to Have as compliance/governance experience; SOC 2 is the primary with CCPA as an alternative.
Compensation includes equity participation in addition to the stated base salary range.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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