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Remote Staff Data Engineer (Remote - US)

at Jobgether

Posted 3 days ago 0 applied

Description:

  • Join a high-impact data engineering team driving technical strategy and architectural excellence in a fast-scaling environment.
  • This role offers the opportunity to shape core data infrastructure, lead cross-functional design initiatives, and enable data-driven decisions that enhance outcomes across the organization.
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, and operations teams while mentoring engineers and influencing data standards and best practices.
  • Lead the architectural strategy for data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs.
  • Own and evolve the long-term technical roadmap for the data platform while balancing short- and long-term priorities.
  • Act as a trusted design authority on storage formats, data processing frameworks, schema governance, and observability tools.
  • Guide initiatives across squads including automation, self-service tooling, data contracts, and governance frameworks.
  • Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership, and drive excellence through documentation, testing, and incident prevention.
  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to optimize platform performance, developer experience, and cost-efficiency.
  • Partner with stakeholders across analytics, clinical, and operational teams to align technical design with business goals.
  • Design and support tooling that empowers users to efficiently access, explore, and use governed data assets.
  • Track and report on KPIs measuring platform reliability, performance, and engineering maturity.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to platform resilience and recovery strategies.

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering with proven leadership in large-scale, cloud-based data platforms.
  • Expert-level knowledge of modern data stacks including AWS, EMR, Glue, Kafka, dbt, Iceberg, or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of lakehouse/medallion architectures, schema evolution, streaming ingestion, and batch orchestration.
  • Deep experience with observability, CI/CD, version control, and incident response in a data context.
  • History of influencing engineering standards and leading cross-squad technical efforts.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of translating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong mentorship record and ability to guide engineering growth across multiple teams.
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Bonus: Experience working with healthcare data such as EMR or claims systems.

Benefits:

  • This is a fully remote role with minimal travel (~5%).
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance is provided.
  • Employee Assistance Program for mental health support is available.
  • A 401(k) plan with company match, along with FSA and HSA options, is offered.
  • Up to 23 days of PTO annually plus company holidays are included.
  • 14 weeks of paid parental leave is provided.
  • Pet insurance is available for employees.
  • The competitive salary range is $170,000 to $185,000 annually, plus bonus and equity.