[Remote] Principal Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ritchie Bros. is a leading omnichannel marketplace providing transaction solutions for commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical architecture and execution across their data platform, ensuring it is scalable and reliable while driving advanced analytics and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the technical architecture for IAA’s data platform — ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic modeling, and data delivery — on the Azure data and analytics stack
• Personally design and build the most complex, high-impact data pipelines, frameworks, and reusable components that other engineers build upon
• Define engineering standards and patterns across architecture, code quality, performance, scalability, observability, and governance — and drive their adoption through example and mentorship
• Lead the design and implementation of robust pipelines, semantic models, and data products that power dashboards, self-service analytics, forecasting, and downstream machine learning systems
• Build the production-grade data pipelines and feature/data infrastructure that data scientists rely on to train, serve, and operationalize models
• Diagnose and resolve the toughest performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across BI and data workloads (e.g., Power BI, Synapse, Fabric)
• Drive technical strategy and execution across Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Power BI, and broader Azure BI technologies, evaluating new tools and making build/buy recommendations
• Mentor and grow data engineers and analytics engineers, conducting design reviews and elevating the technical capability of the team
• Act as a senior technical thought partner to engineering and business leadership on data architecture, technical tradeoffs, and platform investment priorities
• Translate complex business problems into practical, scalable, and well-architected data solutions

Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience as a senior or principal-level data engineer, with a track record of designing and building production data platforms at scale
• Deep expertise across the Azure BI / data technology stack, including: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI and semantic modeling, Broader Azure data and analytics services
• Strong command of data engineering architecture, modern analytics platforms, dimensional and semantic modeling, and scalable, fault-tolerant pipelines
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL, with strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, version control, CI/CD, modular design)
• Working understanding of how data scientists consume data, enough to build the pipelines and feature/data infrastructure that support model training and serving
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, complex business problems through robust technical design and pragmatic execution
• Strong mentoring and influence skills — able to elevate engineering practices and lead technically without formal authority
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical partners across Ops, Business, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Engineering
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment with multiple priorities and stakeholders
• 12+ years experience building data platforms supporting enterprise use cases across operations, commercial functions, and product-driven organizations
• Experience spanning both BI modernization and data platform enablement for analytics and ML within the same platform
• Familiarity with cloud-native engineering practices, infrastructure-as-code, and secure, scalable data environments
• Experience defining platform-wide standards and reference architectures adopted across multiple teams
• Experience building data pipelines that support RAG, LLM, or modern AI workloads on enterprise data

Benefits

• RB Global full-time employees are offered medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurances.
• Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and RB Global will match 100% for the first 4% contributed.
• Employees will also receive 15 days of PTO each year.

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