[Hiring] Founding Data Engineer @Snout

Role Description

Snout is looking for a remote, U.S. based Founding Data Engineer to build the data foundation the rest of the company will run on. This is Snout’s first dedicated data hire, reporting directly to the CTO. You’re inheriting a real, working system — a Postgres operational database and a dbt-modeled analytics warehouse that already powers internal reporting and our LLM/AI tooling — but one that’s grown faster than anyone’s had time to organize. Your job is to turn it into a firm, documented, trustworthy foundation.

• Understand what data we actually have and where it lives, then make it coherent.
• Ingest hundreds of millions of rows from multiple veterinary practice-management systems alongside our own application data.
• Reconcile data lineages into definitions people can trust.
• Own and extend the warehouse, harden the pipelines and the nightly rebuild.
• Shape a model that makes analysis fast and reliable.
• Talk to stakeholders across the company, understand their needs, and present options with clear recommendations.
• Set up and support the data analyst we hire next.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and maintaining production data systems as a data or analytics engineer.
• Deep SQL and hands-on PostgreSQL experience.
• Strong dbt and dimensional/data-modeling experience in production.
• A track record of taming large, messy datasets from multiple source systems.
• A pragmatist’s bias toward simplicity.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable being the first and only data person for a while.

Requirements

• Experience as an early or first data hire who later grew a function or team.
• Python (or similar) for pipelines and tooling.
• Experience modeling data for LLM/AI consumption.
• Familiarity with veterinary or healthcare data, or PIMS systems (Cornerstone, AllyDVM, etc.).
• Experience at a subscription or technology startup (Series A/B), on AWS.

Benefits

• Fast growing, venture capital backed technology company focused on improving access to veterinary care.
• Ability to have a meaningful impact from Day 1, where your voice and opinion matters.
• Unlimited potential to grow in your career, learn and expand your skillsets.
• Collaborative, flexible, and friendly culture.
• Day 1 medical/dental/vision benefits.
• Flexible time off + 11 Snout calendar holidays.
• Paid parental leave.

Compensation

• $165,000 - $185,000 base salary.
• Equity.