Principal Data Engineer - AI

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.</p> <p>What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating<em> </em>our wins – big and small.</p> <p>Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, <a href="https://www.anaplan.com/careers/">values</a>-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!</p></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>We're seeking a Principal Data Engineer who can work across the full stack of Anaplan’s data platform, setting the technical direction for how we ingest, transform, store, serve, and govern data at scale. You will build highly performant, robust data pipelines that process massive volumes of data in real-time and batch. This foundational work empowers business users to leverage vast datasets in their planning workflows and forms the bedrock for our advanced analytics and AI initiatives. You'll need deep knowledge of distributed computing, data architecture, and strong software engineering skills to tackle complex, high-scale data challenges.</p> <p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the data architecture, design, and deployment of scalable, high-throughput Big Data systems into production environments.</li> <li>Architect, deploy, and manage the foundational data systems that underlie modern AI infrastructure, including vector, NoSQL, and document databases.</li> <li>Develop end-to-end data engineering solutions, including robust ETL/ELT pipelines, API services, and data ingestion frameworks.</li> <li>Design and build the storage and processing layers powering our analytics workloads: data lakes, data warehouses, distributed file systems, and real-time streaming architectures.</li> <li>Engineer feature-rich context pipelines that process large-scale enterprise data, balancing batch and str