Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join SmarterDx as a Senior Data Engineer and build scalable pipelines and infrastructure for clinical AI. You will integrate and standardize healthcare data, design resilient frameworks and data models using AWS, and maintain data pipelines. The role involves optimizing existing infrastructure, supporting new products and data sources, and shaping the foundation for next-generation clinical AI solutions. This is a fully remote position within the US, offering a dynamic team environment and significant impact on product strategy. You will work on the full data lifecycle, from ingestion to analysis, contributing to a company that uses AI to improve healthcare. SmarterDx is a physician-founded company focused on using AI to improve hospital revenue, care quality, and operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering development experience with a focus on cloud-based data pipelines and infrastructure
• Expertise with data modeling in SQL, using tools such as dbt, Informatica, Apache Spark
• Expertise in relational and columnar databases
• Experience implementing GitHub CI/CD
• Experience implementing scalable, event-driven architectures using AWS managed services
• Experience with data orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, etc)
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain dbt data models that support our healthcare analytics products
• Integrate and transform customer data to conform to our data specifications and pipelines
• Design and execute initiatives that improve data platform and pipeline automation and resilience
• Participate in a rotation of engineers that diagnose, triage, and solve production data issues
• Apply industry standards and best practices to data testing, observability, and platform stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a scale-up, or rapid growth, technology company
• Experience working in the healthcare industry involving clinical and/or billing/claims data
• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK
• Experience with Fivetran
• Experience with monitoring tools (Sentry.io, Datadog)

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 90-100% of your premiums and 70-90% for dependents, depending on the plan
• One Medical Membership – Free membership included if you enroll in a SmarterDx medical plan
• Paid Parental Leave – Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for birth or adoption
• Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S. with a $400 home office reimbursement stipend
• Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – 4 of which include floating holidays so you can recognize the days that matter most to you
• Learning & Development Budget – $500 per year (prorated) for courses, books, and resources to expand your skills
• 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Empower