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title: 'Principal Data Engineer at Octus'
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# Principal Data Engineer at Octus

- **Company:** Octus
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/octus/jobs/5216326007

## Job description

Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets. For more information, visit: https://octus.com/

Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, and much more.

## Role

Octus is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design, develop, and lead scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines. This is a hands-on Individual Contributor (IC) role that encompasses some management duties, including mentoring, architecture guidance, and providing technical leadership. You’ll play a key role in designing and maintaining robust data infrastructure that powers data platforms, products and automation initiatives across the firm. The ideal candidate is an expert Python and SQL developer with deep experience building modern data workflows using AWS services and infrastructure-as-code.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the overarching technical strategy for the data platform, ensuring alignment between data infrastructure and long-term business goals.
- Lead the design and development of data ingestion and transformation pipelines, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability across diverse data sources (APIs, web data, internal feeds, etc.).
- Serve as a foundational technical leader and mentor for senior engineers within the data platform team, guiding architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
- Architect and manage data pipelines and orchestration workflows using AWS services such as MWAA (Airflow), Lambda, ECS, and SQS.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance with cloud standards.
- Partner with data analysts, scientists, and backend engineers to ensure data consistency, discoverability, and reliability.
- Apply best practices in data modeling, schema design, and ETL/ELT processes for high-volume structured and semi-structured data.
- Ensure data quality and lineage through automated testing, monitoring, and alerting.
- Promote continuous improvement through code reviews, observability practices, and team-wide knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate closely with technology leadership to align data platform development with business strategy and product goals.
- Stay up to date with industry trends in data engineering, cloud architecture, AI/ML integration, and automation.

## Requirements

- Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including SOLID design, modularity, and scalability.
- Expert proficiency in Python for data pipeline and automation development.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience optimizing complex queries and data models.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining cloud-native data pipelines on AWS (e.g., MWAA/Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Glue, S3, Redshift, etc.).
- Experience with data warehousing or lakehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).
- Experience implementing and managing Terraform or similar IaC frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration tools and patterns, including those used in AI/ML pipelines.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices.
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or backend development, with a focus on scalable data solutions.
- Extensive experience in a technical leadership capacity, including mentoring and leading complex data infrastructure projects end-to-end.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and workflow orchestration best practices.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

## Nice to Have

- Exposure to streaming data technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink).
- Experience integrating data quality and observability tools (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, etc.).
- Familiarity with Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, or other data extraction frameworks for ingestion pipelines.

## Equal Employment Opportunity

Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.

## About Octus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Octus is the essential credit intelligence, data, and workflow platform that powers the global leveraged finance and private credit markets for buy-side firms, investment banks, law firms, and advisory firms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Permira in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Kent Collier (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Fintech / Credit Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B — Enterprise (investment banks, buy-side firms, law firms, advisory firms)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Deliver rigorously verified intelligence at speed to create a complete picture for professionals across the entire credit lifecycle, empowering confident, market-defining decisions.

## Products & Services
- **CreditAI by Octus**: Agentic AI platform layered on the world’s largest validated library of leveraged finance, legal, and credit intelligence, trained by leading financial, legal, and data experts.
- **FinDox Document Management**: Trusted document management with the largest repository of searchable documents (5M+ source data documents), aggregated and indexed by AI-integrated technology.
- **Fundamentals Data**: The only fundamental data service with complete market coverage across all stages of credit (deal origination to distressed debt) covering leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, and private credit.
- **Excel Add-ins, REST APIs, and Snowflake Data Shares**: Workflow tools designed to streamline research processes and optimize investment, compliance, portfolio, and data management workflows.
- **News & Intelligence**: Breaking news and intelligence from a global team of 250+ financial analysts, legal analysts, and expert financial journalists.
- **LevPro + Sky Road (Post-Acquisition)**: A vertically integrated, AI-powered portfolio management and trading solution for CLO and private credit managers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (acquired by Permira in 2022; prior total funding of ~$1.3M in seed rounds)
- **Key Metric**: 40,000+ global subscribers trust Octus for credit intel and data; 60,000+ stories published globally every year; 9.3M+ deal documents covering 25k+ issuers and 53k+ deals
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Susquehanna Growth Equity (lead investor in 2016), Permira (acquiring entity). Key acquisitions include LevPro, Sky Road, FinDox, Debt Explained, LoansIntel, and Aggredium Finance Ltd.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (603 employees across 20 countries including UK, Pakistan, Romania, Colombia, Lithuania); completed acquisition of LevPro in 2025; expanding AI capabilities with CreditAI; category creator across research, data analytics, and intelligence.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched market coverage**: The only fundamental data service with complete coverage across all stages of credit — from deal origination to distressed debt — across leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, and private credit.
- **World’s largest library**: The largest repository of leveraged finance intelligence, data, and deal documents going back 9+ years across 25k+ issuers and 53k+ deals.
- **Human + AI “trifecta”**: A unique combination of 250+ financial analysts, legal analysts, and journalists working alongside proprietary AI models (CreditAI) for the most accurate and holistic analysis across credit.
- **Trusted by elite clients**: 100% of the top 10 asset managers and CLO managers are clients; trusted by the world’s leading investment banks, law firms, and advisory firms.
- **Proven acquisition strategy**: Aggregated multiple niche players (FinDox, Debt Explained, Sky Road, LevPro) to build a vertically integrated platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first innovation**: Layering agentic AI (CreditAI) on validated credit intelligence to automate workflows and deliver faster, more accurate insights.
- **Vertical integration**: Completing the acquisition of LevPro and Sky Road to deliver an end-to-end AI-powered portfolio management and trading solution for CLO and private credit managers.
- **Global expansion**: Operating in 20 countries with a growing presence across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.
- **Data and workflow unification**: Continuing to unify credit intelligence, research, and portfolio management into a single essential platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “ridiculously successful rocket ship” with a growth-mindset, customer-first focus, and a culture of equity, opportunity, and access. Employees are driven, action-oriented, and effective team players.
- **Hybrid/Remote Policy**: Flexible, hybrid working policy with home office reimbursements.
- **Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), generous PTO (including vacations, sick leave, and parental leave), employee referral bonuses, manager training programs, Kudos recognition program, gym subsidies, and reimbursements for career development and continuing education.
- **Engineering/Data Culture**: Strong emphasis on AI, data science, and engineering — roles include Senior AI Engineer, Senior Data Scientist, Lead DevOps Engineer, and Quantitative Analyst. The team includes a Chief Scientist & Head of AI Innovation (Sreekanth Mallikarjun) and a Global Head of Data (Tejs Broberg).
- **Growth Opportunity**: A rare category creator across research, data analytics, and intelligence — employees can “turn expertise into customer impact” and level up their career in a market-moving growth story.

## Sources
1. [octus.com](https://octus.com/)
2. [octus.com/about-us](https://octus.com/company/about-us/)
3. [octus.com/careers](https://octus.com/company/careers/)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/octus/jobs/5114966007)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/octus-credit1)

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