Vida Health

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

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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