Solace
Data Engineer
United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 200 days ago
PythonCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAirflowdbtData EngineeringComplianceValuationHIPAAHealth LiteracyCommunication
About the role
- We are a small but growing team where everyone wears many hats and moves fast.
- We are looking for a Data Engineer who loves solving hard problems with clean, maintainable code and thrives in this high-growth startup environment.
- In this role, you will architect the infrastructure that allows us to scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect Robust Pipelines: Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Airflow, Python, dbt, and Snowflake. You will replace brittle manual processes with resilient, automated workflows.
- Build Infrastructure as Code: Manage and evolve our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) using Terraform, ensuring our platform is reproducible, secure, and scalable.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Data Analysts and Product Managers to understand their data needs and deliver high-quality data products that empower decision-making.
- Architect Robust Pipelines: Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Airflow, Python, dbt, and Snowflake.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Airflow, Python, dbt, and Snowflake.
- Implement observability and monitoring to catch issues before they impact stakeholders.
- Experience using dbt to manage transformations and implement testing/documentation standards.
Requirements
- Strong Python Proficiency: You are comfortable writing modular, testable, and efficient Python code for data processing and automation.
- You are experienced in properly handling PHI and PII, implementing secure access controls (RBAC), and adhering to strict governance standards.
- Startup DNA: You are a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity.
- Communication Skills: You can translate complex technical challenges into clear options for non-technical stakeholders.
- Advanced SQL & Snowflake: You have deep expertise in SQL and cloud data warehousing (Snowflake preferred), understanding how to optimize queries for performance and cost.
- Orchestration Mastery: Proven experience building and maintaining complex workflows using Airflow (or similar tools).
- Infrastructure Mindset: Familiarity with Terraform and cloud services (AWS or GCP). You understand how to provision and manage the resources your pipelines run on.
- Security & Stewardship: You understand the gravity of handling sensitive medical data. You are experienced in properly handling PHI and PII, implementing secure access controls (RBAC), and adhering to strict governance standards.
- Startup DNA: You are a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity. You take ownership of problems and are willing to wear many hats to get the job done.
- dbt Expertise: Experience using dbt to manage transformations and implement testing/documentation standards.
Nice to have
- Collaborate with analysts to design performant SQL transformations and data models in Snowflake (experience with dbt is a huge plus).
- Optimize Data Models: Collaborate with analysts to design performant SQL transformations and data models in Snowflake (experience with dbt is a huge plus).
Skills
- Healthcare Background: Experience working with healthcare data standards or strictly regulated environments (HIPAA) a plus.
- Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for deploying data applications.
- Compute & Storage: Snowflake, Postgres
- Orchestration: Airflow
- Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS/GCP
- Transformation: dbt, SQL, Python
- Applicants must be based in the United States.
- Up for the Challenge?
- Fraudulent Recruitment Advisory: Solace Health will NEVER request bank details or offer employment without an interview.
- All legitimate communications come from official solace.health emails only or ashbyhq.com http://ashbyhq.com.
- Report suspicious activity to recruiting@solace.health or advocate@solace.health.
Benefits
- Healthcare in the U.S. is fundamentally broken.
- The system is so complex that 88% of U.S. adults do not have the health literacy necessary to navigate it without help.
- Solace cuts through the red tape of healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates and giving them the tools to make better decisions-and get better outcomes.
- We're here to redefine healthcare-and that demands urgency, precision, and heart.
- Solace Health will NEVER request bank details or offer employment without an interview.
Company info
- At Solace, we are building the data foundation that will power patient outcomes.
- We're a Series C startup, founded in 2022 and backed by Inspired Capital, Craft Ventures, Torch Capital, Menlo Ventures, Signalfire, and IVP.
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