
Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform
Vida Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own end-to-end reliability for core data pipelines—from ingestion through billing and reporting outputs.
- Build observability foundations: health dashboards, tiered alerting and on-call signals that are actionable, not noisy.
- Harden data ingestion with typed staging, quarantine patterns, freshness gates and safe backfill and replay capabilities.
- Enforce schema contracts and quality validation so failures are caught in CI, not discovered by stakeholders.
- Establish clear boundaries between governed core data and downstream BI and reporting layers.
- Lead incident retrospectives that fix root causes, not just symptoms, and reduce future on-call burden.
- Mentor 2–4 data engineers through code reviews, pairing and growth conversations.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree at a minimum.
- 7+ years in data engineering, with meaningful ownership of production pipelines and quality systems.
- Deep dbt experience—you've maintained real deployments, not just prototypes.
- Strong SQL and data modeling instincts, with an eye for performance and cost.
- Python fluency for tooling, validation and automation.
- Hands-on experience with data quality monitoring: contracts, freshness checks, schema enforcement and alerting.
- Have led or mentored small engineering teams, formally or informally.
- You think in systems—and you fix root causes, not just symptoms.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdbtSQLdata modelingPythondata quality monitoringschema enforcementalertingdata ingestionbilling and reporting
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipincident retrospectivesproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationsystem thinkingcode reviewsgrowth conversationsownership
Certifications
Bachelors Degree