# Principal Software Developer - Data

Redfin is a technology-driven real estate company with the country's most-visited real estate brokerage website. As part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), Redfin is creating an integrated homeownership platform from search to close to make the dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for everyone. Redfin’s clients can see homes first with on-demand tours, easily apply for a home loan with Rocket Mortgage, and save thousands in fees while working with a top local agent. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as the chief architect and technical north star for our enterprise data organization. In this role, you will design and scale a unified data platform that serves as the central nervous system for the entire company. You will lead the transition to a modern, multi-tenant Data Lakehouse, abstracting away infrastructure complexity for our data engineers while democratizing high-performance, self-serve access for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI agents. You will partner with engineering directors and mentor Staff-level ICs to ensure our architecture scales elegantly securely across domain boundaries. About therole Lakehouse Architecture

- **Id**: 4049443
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rocket-companies-principal-software-developer-data>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:18:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8352
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Real Estate Brokerage, Personal Finance Apps & Education, Mortgage Lending & Brokers

## Company

- **Id**: 1967610
- **Name**: Rocket Companies
- **Domain**: rocket.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rocket-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 103
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.874
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 234000
- **Max**: 286000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 286000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Dimensional Modeling** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Fivetran** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:18:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:22:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 286000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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