# Staff Data Engineer

**Company:** [NexHealth](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nexhealth)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $177k – $226k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Data Warehousing, Data Pipelines, Data Modeling, ETL, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-04-13

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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