Role

We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping our product and business operations, contributing to our core culture, and expanding our team. Your primary responsibilities will involve addressing significant challenges across the following areas:

Data Pipeline Development

We need you to contribute to some of the following:

• Making our existing schemata and surrounding pipelines more homogenous and DRY
• Improve the quality of existing visibility and instrumentation to waste less developer time
• Improve the quality and comprehensiveness of CI/CD to require less manual intervention
• Reduce excess flexibility, verbosity and configuration throughout, for maintainability
• Generally be on the lookout for ways to reduce complexity and improve reusability

Data Science Infrastructure Growth

We want your help to:

• Improve execution environments to handle bulky models with large resource needs, especially pre-trained models with large inference-time demands
• Improve oversize models to reduce their resource demands, especially training demands
• Develop conventions, software, and tooling, to make EDA and training less tedious
• Generally improve the developer experience to reduce friction, confusion, and ambiguity

Your Qualifications

As an engineer:

• You have 3+ years of data engineering experience, including 1+ year specifically working with clinical and/or claims data
• You developed software in production with at least one modern language (pref. Python)
• You’re totally ready to pick up new languages and frameworks, maybe several
• You’re familiar enough with Linux to develop with Docker images and EC2 instances

As a person:

• You own tasks and take responsibility for them from start to finish.
• When confronted with ambiguity, you react with entrepreneurial spirit and an open mind to hypothesize possible solutions, experiment, pivot, and iterate.
• You are pragmatic and choose the least complex solution for the task at hand.
• You are open to advice and to giving advice, focusing on positive team-wide outcomes.

Our Tech Stack

We have a very diverse tech stack, and open minds for new tools and approaches. What we have now consists of the following (plus many other parts not directly relevant to this position):

• Databases (from most to least use): Snowflake, Postgres, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB; plus SQLite for niche use cases. CDC is predictably a big component.
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) extensively used, integrated with AWS services like ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, and State Machines.
• Languages: Data Science and Data Engineering are done almost exclusively in Python; other apps are in Typescript, Javascript and Rust so some familiarity would be helpful.
• Libraries: Pandas and Polars throughout our existing stack; DBT and Snowflake for our newer stack. Airflow for orchestration.

Compensation

• $170K to $200K base + equity