Translucent

Translucent

Senior Data Engineer

New York City · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 55 days ago
PythonGoSQLBigQuerySnowflakeRedshiftGCPPandasAirflowdbtData EngineeringAgentic AIStatisticsEHR/EMR

About the role

  • We're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with a data engineering focus to join our team in New York.
  • You will work directly with customers to understand their source-of-truth financial and clinical models, then translate that understanding into durable, well-modeled data systems.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize data ingestion and transformation pipelines for correctness, performance, and cost.
  • Build semantic understanding into our core data systems so they can power agentic AI workflows.
  • Partner with platform engineers to build and maintain the core data systems our products depend on.
  • Validate data pipeline correctness and build rigor into our integration test suites at every opportunity.

Requirements

  • Strong SQL optimization experience in a columnar data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar), or Databricks.
  • Experience with orchestration tools ( e.g. Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, Fivetran, Airbyte) etc.
  • 3-5+ years of post-university industry experience
  • Hands-on experience with GCP (BigQuery, GCS, Spanner, IAM, etc.).

Nice to have

  • Strong Python skills, including hands-on experience with pandas (must have) and the broader scientific Python ecosystem.
  • Strong preference to use types where possible, we use pydantic liberally.
  • DBT experience preferred.

Compensation

  • $200,000 - $250,000 with Equity

Benefits

  • Anticipated compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 with Equity
  • Build and maintain abstracted data integration interfaces for healthcare data.
  • Healthcare providers drive $2.5 trillion in medical expenditures annually - and operate on razor-thin 2-5% margins.
  • Founded in 2024 and backed by GV, NEA, FPV, and Virtue, we've already been deployed by healthcare organizations managing over $5 billion in combined revenue.

Company info

  • You will sit at the intersection of our customers' financial and clinical data and the agentic AI systems we are building on top of it.
  • This is a high-ownership role. You will work directly with customers to understand their source-of-truth financial and clinical models, then translate that understanding into durable, well-modeled data systems.
  • Capture and understand the source-of-truth financial and clinical record models used by our customers.
  • What we're looking for
  • Potentially go on-site with customers to capture business logic.

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