Garner’s mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high-quality and affordable care for all.
We are fundamentally reimagining how healthcare works in the U.S. by partnering with employers to redesign healthcare benefits using clear incentives and powerful, data-driven insights. Our approach guides employees to higher-quality, lower-cost care, creating a system that works better for everyone. Patients achieve better health outcomes, employers spend healthcare dollars more effectively, and physicians are rewarded for delivering exceptional care rather than performing more procedures.
Garner is one of the fastest-growing healthcare technology companies in the country. Our products are trusted by the most sophisticated employers and providers in the industry, and we are building a team of talented, mission-driven individuals who are motivated to make a meaningful impact on healthcare at scale.
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Data Engineer with a high sense of ownership who is excited about our mission, eager to learn and teach others, and can deliver across the tech stack. This role will report to our VP, Engineering. The ideal candidate should have experience with a modern data stack and implementations of data pipelines using Python and SQL in AWS.
Where you will work:This role will be based in our New York City office. You must be willing to work in the office 3 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
What you will do:- Build, optimize, and maintain data pipelines that power our business
- Define and build out abstracted reusable data sets to be used for Business Intelligence, Marketing, and Data Science Research
- Design, build, and evangelize a federated data validation frameworks to be used to monitor potential data inconsistencies
- Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
- 4+ years of software/data engineering experience (distributed data processing, data warehousing, data governance, Big Data, data variance, data privacy, and data quality)
- Expertise in SQL, job experience, and demonstrated strength with Python
- Expertise in building scalable data pipelines, query optimization, data modeling, and defining reusable datasets
- Experience working with orchestration tools (especially Airflow), databases (especially PostgreSQL), datalakes (especially Iceberg), data warehouses (especially Snowflake)
- Expertise with SQL tuning, Spark development, medallion and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with healthcare or insurance
- Familiarity with data security and HIPAA compliance
- A desire to be a part of a high-performing, mission-driven team that operates with intense urgency, a strong sense of individual accountability, and a commitment to authentic feedback
- Postgres/SQL, Snowflake, Python, AWS, Terraform, Argo, Airflow, Spark, DuckDB, Iceberg, Airbyte, DBT, ElasticSearch (aka OpenSearch), OpenTelemetry, Looker
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company in a transformative role, helping shape the future of healthcare.
Compensation Transparency:The target salary range for this position is $180,000.00 - $220,000.00. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, skills, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans, including but not limited to: flexible PTO, Medical/Dental/Vision plan options, 401(k) with company match, flexible spending accounts, Teladoc Health and more.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:Garner Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.Garner Health is committed to providing accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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Garner Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — The Garner benefit can significantly reduce out‑of‑pocket costs for those enrolled in company medical plans when care is routed to identified Top Providers. Reimbursement caps are presented as sufficient to make common services near‑zero cost when used as designed.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as generous, with explicit references to a 12‑week leave policy. This offers predictable support for new parents across birth, adoption, or placement.
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Flexible Benefits — Roles are structured as hybrid/remote with company‑sponsored in‑person gatherings, alongside flexible PTO for salaried staff. This combination emphasizes location flexibility while maintaining periodic in‑person connection.
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What We Do
Garner Health is a health tech startup that is transforming the healthcare economy by enabling patients to receive high-quality and affordable care. Garner Health has two core offerings: Garner, a benefit program that uses a new approach to data science and incentive accounts to help employees find the best doctors in their communities, and Garner DataPro, a provider recommendation platform that serves referrals based on the most accurate provider performance and directory data in the industry. Garner Health’s offerings utilize over 75% of the medical claims data in the United States to objectively examine patient outcomes based on more than 500 specialty-specific quality and efficiency measures. By analyzing millions of healthcare journeys across 82 distinct medical specialties, Garner Health sets a new industry standard in delivering reliable, actionable referrals and navigating patients to the highest-quality providers. Garner Health is a remote-first company based in NYC.
Why Work With Us
Our values connect us in caring deeply about doing something different and hard — transforming the healthcare economy. They create an actionable set of norms for how we operate, including how we make decisions and support one another. Learn about our values here: https://www.getgarner.com/about.
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