
Senior Data Engineer
Cylinder
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and design scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines for complex healthcare data ingestion, transformation, and reporting
- Lead technical decision-making for data infrastructure and tooling selection
- Mentor junior engineers and establish engineering best practices across the team
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Product teams
- Champion data quality initiatives and establish robust monitoring and alerting systems
- Design and implement solutions for complex distributed system challenges
- Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to maintain our competitive edge
- Design and implement enterprise-grade data architectures with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Lead code reviews and establish coding standards that promote excellence across the engineering organization
- Drive strategic partnerships with product stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions
- Own end-to-end delivery of critical data infrastructure projects
- Establish comprehensive testing strategies, documentation standards, and operational procedures
- Continuously evaluate and optimize system performance, cost efficiency, and reliability
- Serve as subject matter expert for healthcare data compliance and security requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience architecting and building production data pipelines and MLOps environments
- Expert-level proficiency in SQL and Python with demonstrated experience in performance optimization
- Deep expertise with modern data stack technologies including dbt, Airflow, BigQuery, and cloud-native solutions
- Extensive experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including infrastructure-as-code practices
- Proven track record working with healthcare, medical, or population health data
- Outstanding communication and leadership skills with experience mentoring engineering teams
- Experience establishing data governance and compliance frameworks in regulated industries.
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesMLOpsSQLPythonperformance optimizationdbtAirflowBigQuerycloud-native solutionsinfrastructure-as-code
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcross-functional collaborationtechnical decision-makingdata quality initiativesestablishing best practicesstrategic partnershipsdocumentation standardsoperational procedures