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We are looking for an experienced and innovative Principal Data Engineer to join our team at Navan. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the design and implementation of scalable, efficient, and high-performance data architectures to support data-driven decision-making. You will collaborate closely with various teams—including data engineers, analysts, and product engineering —to ensure seamless integration across systems and data platforms.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the ideation, design, and hands-on development of a high-performance data architecture to support the growing needs of the business.
- Architect scalable, flexible, and efficient data products, leveraging Snowflake as the central data warehouse, and cloud technologies to ensure that data is accessible, secure, and easy to work with.
- Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and product engineering teams to create and optimize data models, ensuring seamless data access and high-quality insights.
- Build and implement robust tests, monitoring, and data validation strategies to ensure data quality, reliability, and consistency across all layers of the data stack.
- Develop and maintain our "single source of truth" for key business metrics, ensuring alignment across teams for all decision-making.
- Establish and promote best practices for data engineering and modeling across the organization, mentoring junior team members and fostering a culture of excellence.
- Drive improvements in data performance, efficiency, and usability, with a focus on reducing friction for end-users and enabling self-service analytics.
- Focus on ensuring high data quality, performance, and scalability for large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering + demonstrated leadership and mentorship experience, including the ability to guide and develop junior engineers and analysts.
- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining ELT pipelines in a cloud environment (preferably Snowflake).
- Strong expertise in DBT Core, AWS, Airflow, SQL, and Python.
- Expert in managing Airflow for data orchestration, and skilled in CI/CD for seamless development automation.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, cloud-based data architectures, and performance optimization.
The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
Pay Range
$195,000—$330,000 USD
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Navan is the all-in-one super app that makes travel and expense easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to focus on the things that matter most to them — all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control.
Navan’s investors include visionaries like Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, Zeev Ventures, and entrepreneurs Lee Fixel, Adam Bain, and Elad Gil. In Oct 2022, Navan announced its Series G upround at a post-money valuation of $9.2B to help accelerate future growth plans.
In April 2023, Navan expanded in the Indian market with the acquisition of Tripeur, a modern, people-centric corporate travel and expense management company. The group’s fifth acquisition in under two years, Tripeur joined the Navan Group alongside Spanish meetings and events specialists, Atlanta Events & Corporate Travel Consultants; Berlin-based modern travel management company, Comtravo; leading Scandinavian travel agency Resia AB; and London-based high-touch TMC, Reed & Mackay.
Why Work With Us
At Navan, we’re never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
In-person connections is the foundation of Navan, the connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and what we can achieve together. We operate on a hybrid working model, which we define as three days a week in-office.
