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NexHealthNexHealthSan Francisco, CA

Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer owns and evolves data platforms including warehouse architecture, pipelines, and modeling to enable scalable analytics and self-service insights. Requires 7+ years experience, advanced SQL/Python, and expertise with managed data warehouses like Snowflake.

177k – 226k
On-site7+ YOEData Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

Own the Data Platform

  • Lead the architectural evolution of our data warehouse, modeling layer, and pipeline structure
  • Refactor core data models to support fast, self-serve access and shared understanding across teams
  • Build reliable ingestion and transformation systems that abstract over messy or fragmented inputs
  • Take responsibility for the structure, reliability, and extensibility of our warehouse and modeling layers
  • Replace brittle vendor-based pipelines with scalable, maintainable ingestion and transformation infrastructure
  • Build in observability, alerting, and validation to ensure the platform can scale with confidence

Drive Strategic Data Initiatives

  • Collaborate closely with Staff-level analysts, engineers, and data consumers to unblock their workflows and enable data insights.
  • Partner with software engineers to anticipate and manage upstream schema changes and database shifts
  • Define and enforce clear data contracts and interface boundaries
  • Shape how the company can eventually leverage data science, customer segmentation, and industry-wide insights

What You’ll Bring

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with a focus on building scalable, well-tested systems
  • Advanced fluency in SQL and Python with strong instincts around modular modeling, optimization, and abstraction
  • Experience building on top of a modern managed data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
  • Proven history of taking ambiguous, fragmented data systems and turning them into reliable, documented, high-trust platforms
  • Ability to operate independently at a Staff level with a high sense of ownership
  • A background in strong engineering cultures or top-tier product environments where quality, velocity, and ownership coexist
  • Passion for clarity, simplicity, and helping teams move faster without cutting corners

Compensation

$177,000—$226,000 USD (base salary)

Benefits

  • Full Medical, Dental, and Vision (up to 100% covered)
  • 401K and commuter benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • High-impact work that directly improves the healthcare experience for millions

Skills

SQLPythonSnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftData WarehousingData PipelinesData ModelingETLObservability

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