Senior Data Access Engineer

Summary

Join AcuityMD's growing Data Access team as a Senior Engineer and help build a robust data platform for application teams. You will design interfaces within our GCP cloud solution, optimizing for BigQuery analytics and balancing cost. This role requires designing efficient data retrieval orchestrators, working on distributed data pipelines, and implementing monitoring tools. You will optimize multi-threaded execution and prevent query contention issues. AcuityMD offers a remote-work environment, unlimited vacation, comprehensive health benefits, a home office stipend, a learning budget, optional team retreats, and parental leave. We are a high-growth startup backed by leading investors.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a professional software engineer
• Enterprise experience building highly-performant data platforms, specifically analytical data
• Passion and interest in solving complex data problems focusing on the logistics and operations of query performance
• Data Engineering experience with familiarity with analytical problem space of big data and large datasets (more on the backend and not ETL)
• Strong Python skills (deep understanding of Python internals and backend engineering), with experience in data pipeline architectures
• Familiarity with cloud-based data architectures and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud-managed data warehouses such as BigQuery (GCP) or Redshift (AWS)
• Solid background in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• You must have an eligible work permit in the USA or Canada to be considered for this position

Responsibilities

• Optimize and manage DuckDB-based query execution with PyArrow and Ibis
• Design and implement efficient data retrieval orchestrators using Python
• Work on distributed data pipelines integrating Flight, Postgres, and caching
• Implement tracing, logging, and monitoring with Datadog and LaunchDarkly
• Optimize multi-threaded execution and prevent query contention issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity across our stack is a plus: Primarily Typescript and Go running on GCP with a PostgreSQL database. We also use React, Temporal, Hasura, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience with FastAPI, DuckDB, and PyArrow

Benefits

• Remote work : AcuityMD is committed to supporting full-remote flexibility for employees in the US. We provide a work-from-home stipend for all employees
• Unlimited vacation : Generous time off and flexible hours give you the freedom to do your best work
• Paid Health, Dental, and Vision Plans: We offer 100% paid health, dental, and vision plans for all employees and 75% paid for our employees' dependents
• Home Office Stipend: $1,000 to invest in remote office equipment and WiFi reimbursement
• Learning Budget: Reimbursements for relevant learning and up-skilling opportunities
• Optional Team Retreats: We meet in-person multiple times per year for co-working and social gatherings
• Parental Leave: 6-12 weeks of fully-paid, flexible parental leave
• Competitive compensation with equity upside