Staff Data Engineer

Summary

Join firsthand's data engineering team and build impactful healthcare technology! As a Staff Data Engineer, you will design, build, and improve cloud-based data infrastructure using technologies like Snowflake, Postgres, Fivetran, and Airflow. You will lead technical design, ensure reliable and scalable infrastructure, and foster a culture of testing and code quality. This role requires a minimum of 3 years of data engineering experience, expertise in SQL, and familiarity with healthcare data. The ideal candidate is passionate about building quality products, a team player, and comfortable collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. firsthand offers a competitive salary, equity, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You are comfortable collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions
• You have experience working on data engineering teams, building and deploying highly scalable data analytics applications
• You have deep experience working with medical and pharmacy claims to drive intelligent operational workflows
• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end leading with the right design and development principles
• You are a team player and are interested in working at a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience with Apache Airflow, DBT, and ETL / ELT tools, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GPC)
• Competent Python skills
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data engineering
• Prior experience in healthcare or life sciences data infrastructure development
• Expert in SQL
• Familiarity with production airflow environment + python

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced, agile team to build and improve modern cloud-based data infrastructure (Snowflake, Postgres, Fivetran, and Airflow). Focus on processing and managing diverse healthcare data through efficient ELT pipelines
• Provide technical leadership throughout the technical design and implementation process
• Own end-to-end infrastructure releases and platform improvements, ensuring reliability and performance at scale
• Lead the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions
• Contribute to developing a culture of testing and code quality by establishing and maintaining robust test coverage and engineering best practices
• Actively participate in ensuring firsthand maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security and privacy

Benefits

• Physical and mental health
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) with a match
• 16 weeks parental leave for either parent
• 15 days/year vacation in your first year (this increases to 20 days/year in your second year and beyond)
• A supportive and inclusive culture