Staff Data Engineer

hims & hers
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Design instincts","Mentoring","Cross-team collaboration","Problem solving","Ownership"]

Join the Data Platform Engineering team as a hands-on Staff Data Engineer and DRI for critical, cross-squad platform initiatives. Own end-to-end ingestion and event/streaming data pipelines across BigQuery, dbt, Airflow (on Astronomer), Confluent Kafka, Databricks, Fivetran, and Terraform/OpenTofu. Drive reliability, data contracts, quality gates, monitoring-as-code, and mentor senior engineers while improving standards for a team of nine.

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Staff Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Join the Data Platform Engineering team as a hands-on Staff Data Engineer and DRI for critical, cross-squad platform initiatives. Own end-to-end ingestion and event/streaming data pipelines across BigQuery, dbt, Airflow (on Astronomer), Confluent Kafka, Databricks, Fivetran, and Terraform/OpenTofu. Drive reliability, data contracts, quality gates, monitoring-as-code, and mentor senior engineers while improving standards for a team of nine.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as DRI for high-complexity, multi-sprint platform initiatives including connector buildouts and engineering standards adoption.
  • •Architect, build, and maintain production-grade ingestion pipelines from source connectivity through Bronze/Silver layers.
  • •Design, implement, and operate event-driven and streaming pipelines using Kafka, PySpark, and Databricks Structured Streaming, including scaling and alerting/runbooks.
  • •Own data contracts, schema governance, SLAs, and data quality (dbt tests, anomaly detection, and data drift alerting).
  • •Own reliability and operational readiness via KPIs/SLOs, Datadog monitoring as code, on-call participation, and Tier 1 runbooks/tickets.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental LeavePaid Leave401k

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years designing, building, and operating data pipelines and platform infrastructure.
  • •Experience with CDC patterns for real-time ingestion and stream processing (including Flink).
  • •Experience governing and administering dbt in production BigQuery or Databricks environments, including CI/CD and platform-level schema governance.
  • •Experience building and operating Airflow DAGs at scale for orchestration and reliability.
  • •Multi-cloud fluency across GCP and AWS, including BigQuery and Airflow on AWS EKS.
Experience:HealthcareTelehealthDirect-to-consumerRegulated environment
Skills:Design instinctsMentoringCross-team collaborationProblem solvingOwnership
Tech Stack:BigQueryDbtAirflowAstronomerKafkaConfluent KafkaDatabricksDatabricks Structured StreamingPySparkFivetranTerraformOpenTofuDatadogDelta LakeDatabricks WorkflowsUnity CatalogFlinkSchema RegistryHightouchEKS

Company Brief

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A telehealth and consumer wellness platform offering personalized care and products across sexual health, hair, mental health, dermatology, weight loss and primary care via digital consultations, prescriptions, and fulfillment.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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