Senior Data Engineer- Data Platform

Responsibilities

• Own production data systems and domains from ingestion through delivery.
• Design ingestion patterns that handle incomplete, duplicated, delayed, malformed, and changing partner data.
• Define the contracts between source systems, ingestion, transformation, and downstream consumers.
• Design data models with clear grain, keys, history, and definitions so the same question doesn't get two different answers.
• Evolve schemas, pipelines, and datasets safely, with retries, backfills, and replay that don't corrupt or duplicate data.
• Improve pipeline performance, observability, and failure handling so you can tell when something is wrong and why.
• Work with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Analytics to figure out what the data needs to represent when requirements are incomplete or messy.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
• 5+ years building production data systems.
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals, including grain, keys, history, dimensional modeling, and the tradeoffs between different representations of the same data.
• Experience designing and operating batch and asynchronous data pipelines, including the failure modes that appear in distributed systems.
• Experience with a cloud data platform and an understanding of storage, query performance, and cost.
• Strong instincts around data correctness, including validation, idempotency, late and duplicated records, schema changes, backfills, and reprocessing.
• Working proficiency in Python for pipelines, services, tooling, and tests.
• The ability to change production systems in ordered, reversible steps without breaking their consumers.
• Clear written communication, including documenting technical decisions and explaining changes to people outside of engineering.
• You do not need previous healthcare experience or experience with every technology we use.

Additional information

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