Health Gorilla

Senior Data Engineer

Health Gorilla

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $162,400 - $181,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSETLJavaPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

  • Architect and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines to support analytics and operational workloads.
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
  • Partner with data scientists, analysts, and engineering teams to ensure data accessibility, consistency, and quality across the organization.
  • Implement data governance, security, and compliance best practices aligned with healthcare and interoperability standards.
  • Drive automation and observability in data workflows, ensuring resilience, transparency, and cost efficiency.
  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance data capabilities.
  • Collaborate with leadership to shape the data strategy roadmap, ensuring scalability for the company’s growth.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience building and scaling data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics environments.
  • Proven expertise with AWS data services — including EMR, Redshift, Glue, S3, Athena, and Lambda.
  • Experience with Databricks and Spark, with demonstrated ability to migrate or integrate from these systems to AWS-native solutions.
  • Strong command of SQL, Python, and at least one compiled language (e.g., Java or Scala).
  • Deep understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, data modeling, and data lake architectures.
  • Hands-on experience implementing data quality frameworks, CI/CD for data pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
  • Familiarity with HIPAA-compliant data handling, FHIR, or other healthcare interoperability standards is a strong plus.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a track record of collaborating across functions and influencing technical direction.
Benefits
  • New hire stock option grant
  • 401(k) plan with discretionary annual matching
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short-, long-term disability, life insurance, and mental health & wellness support
  • Unlimited PTO plus 12 Holidays
  • Paid parental leave (up to 12 weeks)
  • Monthly stipend for phone and internet
  • Stipend for home office equipment (we provide the laptop)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data pipelinesdata warehousesanalytics environmentsAWS data servicesSQLPythonJavaScalaETL frameworksdata modeling
Soft skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationinfluencing