Staff Data Engineer
Quick Summary
firsthand supports individuals living with SMI (serious mental illness). Our holistic approach includes a team of peer recovery specialists, benefits specialists and clinicians.
We use data infrastructure to enable more timely and personalized engagement with individuals living with SMI at scale. This allows our team of peers, social workers, and nurse practitioners to plan appropriate care and focus on critical tasks rather than manually searching for information across silos in the healthcare system. This is a unique opportunity to help drive the impact and capabilities of our data team and infrastructure. You will build impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack.
Responsibilities
~1 min readOur data infrastructure is built on Snowflake, DBT (Cloud), Airflow, and Python, with tools like Fivetran and Hightouch. The foundation is solid but not pristine - there's a solid mix of improvements to handle, new features to enable, and running-the-business systems to improve and automate.
- Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scaled data infrastructure, serving as a technical lead and mentor within the organization.
- Directly collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to effectively gather requirements and understand business needs in order to create durable pipelines, infrastructure, and ELT models that enable the company to ingest data in various formats and from various sources and then turn them into usable business facing data products.
- Align and coordinate your team's work against strategic business priorities and help define and manage the data roadmap.
- Drive operational excellence by ensuring data quality through automated testing and validation, robust pipeline monitoring and alerting, and establishing clear incident response practices when things break.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship, architecture reviews, and maintaining high technical standards across the codebase.
- Own data architecture, infrastructure, and platform improvements. Drive systems improvements and upgrades with a long-term view.
- Use systems thinking to solve problems and add capabilities. Adopt tools, technologies, and patterns to provide leverage. Build a platform, don't just get tasks done.
- 7+ years of data engineering experience, with deep expertise in technologies like Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, and Python. You've architected data systems for reliability and scale, not just built pipelines to spec.
- A track record with ambiguous initiatives that required breaking down complex problems, coordinating across engineering and business teams, and delivering outcomes.
- Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to represent your team's work and direction to non-technical leadership, and to translate business needs into technical strategy that others can follow.
- Experience enabling team leverage through mentorship, establishing technical standards, and guiding stakeholders through capability tradeoffs; you make the people and systems around you better.
Nice to Have
~2 min readBenefits
For full-time employees, our compensation package includes base, equity (or a special incentive program for clinical roles) and performance bonus potential. Our benefits include physical and mental health, dental, vision, 401(k) with a match, 16 weeks parental leave for either parent, 15 days/year vacation in your first year (this increases to 20 days/year in your second year and beyond), and a supportive and inclusive culture.
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- April 27, 2026
- First seen
- April 28, 2026
- Last seen
- May 3, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 5
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 57%
- Scored at
- May 3, 2026
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