Senior Data Engineer
HealthLeap2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate data pipelines from hospital-system ingestion through transformation and delivery.
- Produce trusted data for ML pipelines, customer analytics, and user-facing APIs.
- Define data contracts and checks for missing records, schema changes, and incorrect values.
- Handle backfills, late data, failures, and recovery.
- Collaborate with integration, ML, and product engineers to deliver data reliably.
- Trace data problems across systems and own production fixes through resolution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production data systems.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience owning pipelines dependent on messy, changing external data.
- Strong data modeling judgment regarding correctness, monitoring, and recovery.
- Ability to trace problems across systems and own the fix through production.
- Preferred: experience building data pipelines for ML products.
- Preferred: experience with clinical data, EHRs, HL7, or FHIR.
- Preferred: early-stage experience building and operating core data systems.
Benefits
- $175,000–$275,000 base salary plus meaningful equity.
- 100% covered healthcare premiums.
- Unlimited PTO with a 20-day minimum.
- 4% 401(k) match.
- Laptop and home office budget.
- San Francisco-based, in-person by default, with flexibility to work from home when needed.
- The role may require 60+ hour weeks during hospital go-lives.
- The interview process includes an intro call, data pipeline design, practical data exercise, and San Francisco onsite.
About HealthLeap
HealthLeap builds an AI screening platform for hospital clinicians that integrates with EHRs to risk-rank patients and surface relevant data, initially targeting malnutrition. Hospitals use it to prioritize care, support treatment and billing, and reduce readmissions and length of stay. Founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, it is privately held; customers include Cedars-Sinai and Penn Medicine, with Houston Methodist, Emory, and Intermountain Health rolling out.