Natera

Sr. Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Data & AI Engineering

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Base Salary

$150k - $188k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own technical architecture, design reviews, build-versus-buy decisions, and delivery planning for analytics and AI solutions.
  • Build and maintain scalable cloud data pipelines, transformations, governed data models, semantic layers, dashboards, and data products.
  • Develop agentic workflows, retrieval/RAG solutions, and LLM pipelines for business productivity and automation.
  • Write production-grade SQL and Python and contribute to shared frameworks, templates, and delivery tooling.
  • Establish standards for data modeling, pipeline design, testing, CI/CD, observability, data quality, contracts, lineage, and monitoring.
  • Use and scale AI coding assistants and agentic tools across design, coding, testing, documentation, and operations.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design coaching, and partner on hiring and skills development.
  • Own operational excellence including SLAs, incident response, compute and storage costs, data reliability, and durable root-cause fixes.
  • Ensure PHI and genomic-data pipelines meet HIPAA, CLIA, security, governance, access-control, auditability, and retention requirements.
  • Partner with business stakeholders, data and AI platform teams, architecture forums, and data governance groups.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of data or software engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading technical design and delivery for a team or major workstream.
  • Strong mentorship, design review, code review, technical consensus-building, and communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agentic tools.
  • Expert SQL skills, strong Python skills, and experience shipping and operating production data pipelines and models at scale.
  • Deep experience with a modern cloud data warehouse and cloud infrastructure, preferably Snowflake and AWS.
  • Hands-on experience with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework and Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar orchestration tools.
  • One to two years of practical experience building with LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent LLM frameworks, managed AI services, model-routing gateways, and foundation APIs.
  • Strong grounding in analytical data modeling, semantic layers, data quality engineering, and CI/CD for data systems.
  • Preferred experience in healthcare, life sciences, regulated domains, lab or bioinformatics systems, Snowflake performance and cost management, BI and semantic-layer tools, agentic workflows, Terraform, data observability, Salesforce, laboratory systems, or EHR data sources.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • Remote USA work arrangement.
  • Base pay range of $150,400–$188,000 USD.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and dependents.
  • Free testing for employees and immediate family members and fertility care benefits.
  • Pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401(k) benefits, commuter benefits, and an employee referral program.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSdbtPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

AI ApplicationsData Engineering
Natera

About Natera

5,001-10,000 employees

Natera develops and sells cell-free DNA-based diagnostic tests for oncology, women’s health, and organ transplant care, used by hospitals and clinicians. Its portfolio includes non-invasive prenatal testing and carrier screening, minimal residual disease monitoring for cancer, and transplant rejection assessment, delivered as CLIA/CAP-accredited lab services. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Natera is a public company listed on NASDAQ.

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