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Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation— inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
Join our Data Platform Engineering portfolio, a global team building and operating the database infrastructure that powers BCG’s data products, analytics, and AI capabilities across Case Teams, Practice Areas, and Business Systems.
As a Principal Database Platform Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native database platforms, with a primary focus on AWS. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on designing for scale and reliability, driving automation, and setting the platform standards that engineering teams across the firm depend on.
This role suits an engineer who has operated at a senior level before – someone who identifies what needs to be built, makes sound technical decisions, and delivers without requiring step-by-step direction. We are looking for a strong cloud database engineer with the curiosity and drive to grow into AI-enabling database infrastructure as BCG’s needs evolve.
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Design and operate cloud-native database platforms on AWS, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Build automated, self-service capabilities using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, and Git-based workflows
Architecture & Standards
- Define and implement reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails across a multi-cloud environment
- Act as a technical leader where required, translating business and engineering needs into scalable database platform designs
Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization
- Embed SRE principles including observability, performance tuning, and incident response into day-to-day operations
- Ensure secure-by-design practices across identity, access management, and data protection
- Drive cloud cost transparency and optimization through FinOps disciplines, including tagging, attribution, and rightsizing
Stakeholder Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner with architecture, application, and data teams to translate needs into practical platform solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Lead design and architecture reviews aligned to enterprise standards
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and lead proofs of concept as BCG’s AI and data needs evolve
- Support and enable AI and analytics use cases through modern database platform capabilities
You’re Good At
- Communicating clearly – able to translate technical decisions and trade-offs into terms that resonate with non-technical stakeholders
- Working across global, cross-functional teams and building effective partnerships across disciplines
- Approaching problems with analytical rigor and a practical engineering mindset
- Prioritizing and delivering in a fast-moving environment without losing sight of quality or standards
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 to 10 years of experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services – DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or similar – in production environments
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
- Solid understanding of how databases perform at scale – query performance, indexing, and data distribution
- Self-directed and hands-on – you own the problem end to end, from design through to delivery
- Genuine interest in how database platforms are evolving, particularly in the context of AI and analytics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across more than one cloud provider – Azure or GCP alongside AWS
- Familiarity with graph, document, or NoSQL databases – Neptune, DocumentDB, MongoDB, or equivalent
- Exposure to vector search or pgvector for AI and GenAI workloads
- Experience with analytics platforms such as Databricks or BigQuery
- Familiarity with RAG pipelines, embedding stores, or modern AI data architectures
- Working knowledge of cloud security practices – IAM, least-privilege, data protection
- Exposure to FinOps, SRE, or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to architecture reviews
- Relational database background (MSSQL, Oracle) – useful context, but not the focus of this role
Who You'll Work With
- Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams
- Data & Analytics platforms – Databricks, BigQuery
- Application development teams and product owners
- Cloud, security, and infrastructure teams
- Managed service providers and technology partners
Additional info
For US locations only
In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
- The base salary range for this role begins at $143,000 in our lowest cost US region and goes up to $186,330 in our highest cost US region. Your recruiting contact can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
All of our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
Locations: Boston | Atlanta
Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation— inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
Join our Data Platform Engineering portfolio, a global team building and operating the database infrastructure that powers BCG’s data products, analytics, and AI capabilities across Case Teams, Practice Areas, and Business Systems.
As a Principal Database Platform Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native database platforms, with a primary focus on AWS. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on designing for scale and reliability, driving automation, and setting the platform standards that engineering teams across the firm depend on.
This role suits an engineer who has operated at a senior level before – someone who identifies what needs to be built, makes sound technical decisions, and delivers without requiring step-by-step direction. We are looking for a strong cloud database engineer with the curiosity and drive to grow into AI-enabling database infrastructure as BCG’s needs evolve.
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Design and operate cloud-native database platforms on AWS, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Build automated, self-service capabilities using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, and Git-based workflows
Architecture & Standards
- Define and implement reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails across a multi-cloud environment
- Act as a technical leader where required, translating business and engineering needs into scalable database platform designs
Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization
- Embed SRE principles including observability, performance tuning, and incident response into day-to-day operations
- Ensure secure-by-design practices across identity, access management, and data protection
- Drive cloud cost transparency and optimization through FinOps disciplines, including tagging, attribution, and rightsizing
Stakeholder Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner with architecture, application, and data teams to translate needs into practical platform solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Lead design and architecture reviews aligned to enterprise standards
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and lead proofs of concept as BCG’s AI and data needs evolve
- Support and enable AI and analytics use cases through modern database platform capabilities
You’re Good At
- Communicating clearly – able to translate technical decisions and trade-offs into terms that resonate with non-technical stakeholders
- Working across global, cross-functional teams and building effective partnerships across disciplines
- Approaching problems with analytical rigor and a practical engineering mindset
- Prioritizing and delivering in a fast-moving environment without losing sight of quality or standards
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8 to 10 years of experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services – DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or similar – in production environments
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
- Solid understanding of how databases perform at scale – query performance, indexing, and data distribution
- Self-directed and hands-on – you own the problem end to end, from design through to delivery
- Genuine interest in how database platforms are evolving, particularly in the context of AI and analytics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience across more than one cloud provider – Azure or GCP alongside AWS
- Familiarity with graph, document, or NoSQL databases – Neptune, DocumentDB, MongoDB, or equivalent
- Exposure to vector search or pgvector for AI and GenAI workloads
- Experience with analytics platforms such as Databricks or BigQuery
- Familiarity with RAG pipelines, embedding stores, or modern AI data architectures
- Working knowledge of cloud security practices – IAM, least-privilege, data protection
- Exposure to FinOps, SRE, or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to architecture reviews
- Relational database background (MSSQL, Oracle) – useful context, but not the focus of this role
Who You'll Work With
- Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams
- Data & Analytics platforms – Databricks, BigQuery
- Application development teams and product owners
- Cloud, security, and infrastructure teams
- Managed service providers and technology partners
Additional info
For US locations only
In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.
Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.
- The base salary range for this role begins at $143,000 in our lowest cost US region and goes up to $186,330 in our highest cost US region. Your recruiting contact can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.
In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.
All of our plans provide best in class coverage:
- Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
- Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
- Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
- Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Principal Engineer
Verify your engineering credentials map correctly
Pull the O*NET profile for Principal Engineer roles and confirm your Chilean degree and years of specialized engineering experience align with the specialty occupation definition. A mismatch at the consular interview is harder to fix than a document gap caught early.
Target employers with active H-1B1 filing histories
Search DOL LCA disclosure data through the OFLC Wage Search to identify companies that have filed H-1B1 Chile petitions for engineering roles. These employers already understand the process and won't need you to explain the visa from scratch.
Request the prevailing wage tier before negotiating
The DOL prevailing wage for Principal Engineer roles is tied to your work location and experience level. Run the OFLC Wage Search before your offer conversation so you know whether the employer's number meets or clears the required wage floor.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate's job board to find Principal Engineer roles at companies with confirmed H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history. You'll see which employers have sponsored Chilean nationals before, cutting out companies that list engineering roles but have no sponsorship track record.
Confirm the LCA is certified before signing
Your employer must have a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before you can apply at the consulate. Don't give notice to a current employer or book travel until you have written confirmation the LCA certification is in hand.
Prepare for consular questions on specialty occupation
Consular officers assess whether your Principal Engineer role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific engineering discipline. Bring your offer letter, job description, and degree credentials to the interview so the specialty occupation connection is immediately clear.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B1 Chile visa?
Yes, provided the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific engineering discipline such as computer engineering, electrical engineering, or systems engineering. The consular officer will assess whether your job description and duties align with that requirement. A generic title with broad, non-technical duties is more likely to face scrutiny than a role with defined engineering deliverables and a clear degree requirement.
How does the H-1B1 Chile visa differ from the H-1B for Principal Engineer positions?
The H-1B1 Chile visa skips the H-1B lottery entirely and does not require USCIS to adjudicate a petition before you apply. Chilean nationals apply directly at the U.S. consulate once the employer has a certified LCA from DOL. The annual cap of 1,400 visas for Chilean nationals has not been reached in recent years, so timing risk is minimal compared to the H-1B visa's oversubscribed registration process.
How do I find Principal Engineer employers who will sponsor an H-1B1 Chile visa?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to identify companies with verified H-1B1 Chile LCA filing history for engineering roles. You can filter by role type and see which employers have already gone through the DOL certification process, which removes the uncertainty of approaching companies that may have no experience with Chilean national sponsorship.
Can I switch employers while on an H-1B1 Chile visa as a Principal Engineer?
Yes, but your new employer must complete a fresh LCA certification with DOL and you will need to return to the consulate or apply for a change of status. The H-1B1 visa is employer-specific, so your authorization does not automatically transfer. Start the process with the new employer before your current status expires to avoid a gap in lawful work authorization.
What documents does the consulate require for a Principal Engineer H-1B1 Chile application?
You'll need your certified LCA, a detailed offer letter confirming the role's specialty occupation requirements and compensation, proof of your engineering credentials, and your DS-160 confirmation. The consulate will evaluate whether your degree directly supports the engineering specialization the role requires, so your academic transcripts and any professional certifications strengthening that connection are worth including.