Principal Software Engineer (Data)

About this role

• Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Datastore team
• The Datastore sits at the heart of Beacon’s platform
• It defines our foundational data model and serves as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies, supporting the analytical tools, services, and applications used by our scientists, clinicians, and partners
• This role emphasizes the architecture and design of solutions spanning the Beacon Platform, with a focus on scalable data models to serve expanding business needs, event-driven pipelines, and engineering best practices
• You will coach engineers and stakeholders of the Datastore on design patterns, collaborate with product and technical leads across platform and scientific teams, and help shape architectural direction and standards across Platform teams
• What success looks like:
• You partner with engineering and product leaders and Datastore stakeholders to guide architecture and solutions for the Beacon Datastore, and influence architectural standards across Platform teams
• You implement features that model best practices, and coach team members to develop their skills. You hold the Datastore to ever higher standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability as it grows
• You draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, soliciting and incorporating input and building alignment on the decisions that guide development- Strong proficiency in SQL, with production experience working with PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with data streaming and event processing, using tools such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or a cloud-based equivalent like Amazon Kinesis
• Experience with, or interest in, using LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in a production setting, with good judgment about what guardrails are needed
• A collaborative mindset - you enjoy working across disciplines and believe people achieve more together than alone
• Strong proficiency in a m...