Staff Data Engineer

Clarium Health

• $170K — $210K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in data or software engineering, with significant end-to-end ownership of production systems
  • Expert-level SQL skills for complex analytical queries and performance analysis
  • Proficiency in Python for production data tasks including pipeline development
  • Deep expertise in relational database design and optimization, especially Postgres and Snowflake
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline tools like Airflow or dbt, emphasizing depth over specific stack
  • Production-level experience on AWS with a solid grasp of costs and security implications
  • Proven leadership in cross-team initiatives within ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and technical roadmap for data infrastructure on AWS
  • Design and operate reliable data pipelines with clear SLAs and observability
  • Model and migrate supply chain data from ERP systems into a unified warehouse model
  • Optimize performance and cost in Postgres and Snowflake, managing queries and storage
  • Establish engineering standards for data work and mentor fellow engineers
  • Collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering teams to create durable data models
  • Lead governance efforts for sensitive data, ensuring compliance and integrity.

Benefits

  • Incentive stock options proportional to salary
  • Fully remote work option with a NYC co-working space available
  • Unlimited PTO policy
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401K retirement plan
  • Opportunity to contribute to a foundational team making a real impact in healthcare
  • Fast-paced, high-growth work environment focused on solving key healthcare challenges
  • Collaborative culture with a diverse team of professionals.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

This is a staff-level individual contributor role for an engineer who sets technical direction for our data platform rather than working ticket to ticket. You'll decide how data gets modeled, moved, and trusted across Clarium, and you'll leave both the systems and the engineers around you measurably better.

You'll work across our transactional databases and analytical warehouse, own the pipelines that connect them, and partner directly with the analytics, product, and engineering teams who depend on that data. Much of the work is supply chain data arriving from hospital ERP systems, where schemas and semantics vary by source and are rarely well documented, so a large part of the job is deciding what should be built, not only building it.

In This Role You Will
  • Own the architecture and technical roadmap for core data infrastructure on AWS, spanning ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers
  • Design, build, and operate reliable batch and near-real-time pipelines with clear SLAs and the observability to back them up
  • Model supply chain data from external ERP systems into a coherent, reusable warehouse model, and lead the migration of legacy assets toward it
  • Tune performance and cost across Postgres and Snowflake, including query plans, indexing, partitioning, warehouse sizing, and storage strategy
  • Establish engineering standards for data work (testing, code review, CI/CD, data quality checks, documentation) and mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and honest technical feedback
  • Partner with analytics, product, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous questions into durable data models instead of ad hoc extracts
  • Lead governance for sensitive data, including lineage, access controls, retention, auditability, and de-identification where required
What You'll Bring
  • 8+ years of data or software engineering experience, including significant time owning systems end to end in production
  • Expert-level SQL: you write complex analytical queries as a matter of course and can read a query plan and explain why something is slow
  • Strong Python for production data work, including pipeline code, transformation logic, testing, and tooling
  • Deep experience with relational databases, including schema design, normalization tradeoffs, transactions, and performance tuning (Postgres and Snowflake strongly preferred)
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline and orchestration tooling such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, Fivetran, Spark, or Kafka; we care more about depth and judgment than an exact stack match
  • Production experience running data workloads on AWS (e.g., S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS), with an understanding of the cost, security, and networking implications of how you build
  • A track record of leading multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives that depended on teams you don't manage, and comfort with the ambiguity of deciding what should be built
Nice to Have
  • Experience with healthcare data (claims, EHR/EMR, HL7 or FHIR, ICD-10, CPT) or working under HIPAA with PHI, de-identification, and audit requirements
  • Familiarity with supply chain data from ERP systems such as Oracle, Workday, or Lawson, including where it tends to be unreliable
  • Infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation (Terraform, CDK, CI/CD for data infrastructure)
  • Streaming and event-driven architectures, or data quality and observability tooling
Skills & Tools You'll Use

Need to Know: SQL • Python • Postgres • Snowflake • AWS (S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS)

Nice to Know: Terraform • Github Actions • EKS / Kubernetes • dbt • Prefect • Apache Kafka

What You Get at Clarium

Target Base Salary Range: $170K - $210K

The base salary Clarium offers may vary depending upon the ultimate scope and responsibilities of the position and on the candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total package will include equity, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
  • Incentive Stock Options proportionate to your salary
  • Fully remote, with a NYC co-working space available; distributed team across multiple time zones with opportunities for in-person time
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Top-tier health, vision, and dental benefits
  • 401K
  • The opportunity to build on a strong foundational team with deep data and engineering roots at a stage where your work genuinely shapes the product
  • A fast-paced, high-growth environment where we move quickly to solve critical healthcare challenges
  • The chance to empower frontline healthcare workers by automating the administrative friction in their day-to-day
  • Collaborative work alongside a high-caliber team of clinicians, engineers, and revenue leaders

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