Data Engineer
As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, dbt models, and infrastructure on AWS and Snowflake. You will partner with BI/Analytics Engineering, take operational responsibility, and mentor junior team members.
About the job
You Will:
- Build and maintain ingestion pipelines and Python services running on AWS (Lambda, ECS)
- Develop and maintain dbt models in our Snowflake warehouse, with thoughtful tests and documentation
- Take operational responsibility — participate in the on-call rotation, triage pipeline failures, contribute to post-mortems
- Partner with our BI / Analytics Engineering team to translate their needs into reliable DE work
- Migrate independently-scheduled tasks and pipelines into Airflow DAGs as we standardize orchestration
- Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and team standards
- Mentor newer team members and review their work
You Have:
- 2+ years working as a Data Engineer (or in a closely-related role: backend engineering with substantial data work, analytics engineering, etc.)
- Strong Python — you're a programmer, not just someone who can write SQL. You can write clear, testable Python and understand idiomatic patterns.
- Advanced SQL — you've written non-trivial queries against a cloud warehouse, you understand window functions, joins, and how to write SQL that performs.
- Conceptual understanding of CI/CD pipelines — you don't need to have built one yourself, but you understand what they do and why they matter.
- Experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.); Snowflake preferred.
- Comfortable in a cloud computing environment, ideally AWS.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar is preferred but not required.
Nice to Have
- Experience with dbt (we use it heavily)
- Experience with Airflow or another orchestration tool
- Experience with ETL tools (Fivetran, Rivery, Stitch, etc.) — we use Fivetran
- Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC (our DevOps team owns most of this, but exposure is useful)
- Domain experience in healthcare
Why Talkiatry:
- Top-notch team: we're a diverse, experienced group motivated to make a difference in mental health care
- Collaborative environment: be part of building something from the ground up at a fast-paced startup
- Excellent benefits: medical, dental, vision, effective day 1 of employment, 401K with match, generous PTO plus paid holidays, paid parental leave, and more!
- Grow your career with us: hone your skills and build new ones with our Learning team as Talkiatry expands
- It all comes back to care: we’re a mental health company, and we put our team’s well-being first
Skills
Python, SQL, Snowflake, AWS, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, Terraform, GitHub Actions
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