Principal Data Engineer - Governance & Compliance

What you'll do

• Build clear understanding of key data flows, sources of truth, and ownership
• Define schemas, data contracts, documentation, and standards for data usage
• Improve data discoverability across teams
• Establish standards around data quality, lineage, observability, and ownership
• Define, maintain, and enforce data lifecycle policies
• Help teams track data cost and usage
• Define and implement data compliance practices aligned with business, partners, and regulatory needs
• Partner with Legal, Product, Security, and Engineering to assess impact of new data sources and use cases
• Clarify data usage, storage, and retention policies
• Support work with premium publishers, enterprise advertisers, and strategic partners
• Build guardrails enabling fast, safe, compliant engineering decisions
• Embed governance and compliance into engineering workflows, tools, and architecture
• Help transition toward a security- and compliance-aware data culture
• Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities and define pragmatic roadmap

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building or operating large-scale data platforms
• Strong practical experience with data governance, data quality, data contracts, lineage, access control, or compliance-oriented data architecture
• Proven track record implementing compliance frameworks in real engineering systems
• Experience working with sensitive, regulated, or contractually constrained data
• Ability to translate legal, compliance, security, and business requirements into practical engineering solutions
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Product, Legal, Security, and Analytics
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor with high ownership and strong influence
• Comfort with ambiguity, early-stage environments, and building structure where it does not yet exist
• Based in Europe, or able to work closely with European engineering teams

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