[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @Vanna Health, Inc

Role Description

Two kinds of data decide whether we can do our job: what a health plan tells us happened to a member and what our own software records about what we did for them. When a file is late, malformed, or quietly incomplete, care teams work from a stale list. When the two do not line up, nobody can say whether the work is helping.

You will own the infrastructure our data runs on, including:

• Compute choices, serverless versus clusters, cost and performance
• Work orchestration and deployment
• Connections to partners and systems over SFTP, S3, private networking, and partner feeds
• Reliability and observability of the platform

This is a senior individual contributor role, with a clear path to leading data engineering as the team grows. This role is complementary to analytics engineering.

In your first 90 days, you might take on one or two of these:

• Take over the performance work on our heaviest batch jobs
• Move our legacy Databricks jobs onto our newer platform
• Connect a new payer data feed end to end
• Review where each of our scheduled jobs runs and right-size the ones that cost more than they should

You will also be close to the people whose work this data describes: coaches, clinicians, and researchers who spend their days with our members.

Qualifications

• Typically seven or more years building production software or data systems
• Hands-on production experience with at least one distributed data processing engine at scale
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Experience designing systems on a major cloud, preferably AWS
• Experience leading technical work and mentoring other engineers
• Experience with AI coding agents in daily engineering work

Requirements

• Set technical direction for data engineering
• Own platform architecture on Databricks and AWS
• Decide where and how jobs run, ensuring they are fast and economical
• Make the platform reliable and observable
• Validate data against expectations
• Replace recurring manual work with automation
• Protect PHI by design
• Represent data engineering with partners, vendors, and colleagues

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $180,000 - $220,000 per year

Company Description

At Vanna Health, we believe that a sense of belonging and engagement in the community is the foundation for improving overall health and wellbeing for individuals with serious mental illness. We help people living with serious mental illness thrive by strengthening the community ecosystem around them.

Vanna Health was founded in 2021 by a team of mission-driven entrepreneurs, working in close partnership with payers, providers, and community-based organizations to promote collaboration and improve outcomes while driving down costs.