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Freshworks Inc. builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional employee and customer experiences. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, helping businesses reduce complexity, lower cost-to-serve, and deliver faster, more human support through enterprise-grade yet easy-to-use CX and IT solutions. Nearly 75,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks to power their Employee Experience (EX) and Customer Experience (CX) operations.
As the most senior individual contributor within our data engineering organization, the Principal Staff Engineer – Data will define the long-term technical vision for Freshworks' data platform. This strategic leader will orchestrate architectural decisions across data ingestion, processing, storage, governance, analytics, and AI/ML enablement to fuel global enterprise scale.
Experience with lakehouse technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks.
Experience building data platforms supporting AI/ML, GenAI, feature stores, or training-data pipelines.
Experience with enterprise data governance, metadata management, cataloging, lineage, and observability platforms.
Experience driving platform cost optimization and FinOps initiatives for large-scale data environments.
Track record of defining technical direction and delivering organization-wide platform transformations.
At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business.
Experience with lakehouse technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks.
Experience building data platforms supporting AI/ML, GenAI, feature stores, or training-data pipelines.
Experience with enterprise data governance, metadata management, cataloging, lineage, and observability platforms.
Experience driving platform cost optimization and FinOps initiatives for large-scale data environments.
Track record of defining technical direction and delivering organization-wide platform transformations.
At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business.
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