Data Engineer

Circadiahealth; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Circadia Health in Los Angeles seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and operate production data pipelines for its AI-driven clinical monitoring platform.

You'll ingest data from EHRs, devices, and hospital systems, implement secure workflows, work with AWS, Snowflake, and MySQL, and collaborate with Data Science and Backend teams to enable reliable analytics and ML workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, or a closely related role.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data pipeline and backend development.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and hands-on experience with MySQL and Snowflake.
• Experience integrating data from Microsoft SQL Server, including log shipping or CDC approaches.
• Experience building high‑throughput data pipelines from ingestion through transformation and storage.
• Experience deploying and operating production systems in AWS.
• Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with healthcare data (PHI) and HIPAA/compliance knowledge.
• Experience integrating with EHR systems (e.g., Epic, Homecare Homebase, PointClickCare).
• Familiarity with HL7 and FHIR standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest healthcare data from EHR systems and hospital databases.
• Develop integrations using REST APIs and webhook-driven workflows.
• Database log shipping and CDC mechanisms for SQL Server-based systems.
• Transform, validate, and normalize incoming clinical data for MySQL and Snowflake.
• Ensure pipelines are robust, fault-tolerant, and scalable to large data volumes.
• Collaborate with Data Science/ML teams to support model training and evaluation.
• Deploy and operate data pipelines in AWS with monitoring and alerting.
• Maintain data quality, security, and compliance with HIPAA/SOC 2.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL / Data Pipelines

REST APIs

AWS

HIPAA / healthcare data security

HL7 / FHIR

EHR integrations

Snowflake

MySQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

Snowflake

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

About Circadia Health

Circadia Health is a growth-stage healthcare AI company on a mission to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and transform senior‑care operations. Our Circadia Intelligence Platform combines:

1. Contactless sensing that monitors respiration and motion with medical‑grade accuracy
2. Predictive analytics & agentic AI workflows that detect 85% of preventable rehospitalizations ~11 days in advance
3. Enterprise integrations that embed insights directly into EHR, care‑coordination, billing, and compliance systems

Today our technology touches 40,000+ post‑acute patients daily across skilled‑nursing, home‑health, and home‑care networks. We are backed by leading healthcare and AI investors including Khosla Ventures, Village Global, Headline, and Eric Yuan (CEO of Zoom).

Job Description

As a Data Engineer at Circadia Health, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers Circadia’s AI‑driven clinical monitoring platform. You will design and operate robust data pipelines that gather, transform, and distribute sensitive healthcare data originating from Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, medical devices, and hospital information systems.

Reporting directly to the Lead AI Engineer, you will work closely with backend engineers, ML engineers, clinical teams, and customer integration partners to ensure reliable, secure, and compliant flow of patient data—including ADT events, conditions, medications, allergies, clinical notes, and vital signs.

Your work will directly enable Circadia’s predictive analytics and machine learning models that identify early signs of clinical deterioration, helping clinicians intervene sooner and improve patient outcomes. This is a hands‑on role where production‑grade data engineering, reliability, and healthcare compliance are non‑negotiable.

Data Pipeline & Integration Development

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest healthcare data from customer EHR systems and hospital databases.
• Develop integrations using REST APIs and webhook‑driven workflows.
• Database log shipping and change data capture (CDC) mechanisms, including Microsoft SQL Server–based systems.
• Transform, validate, and normalize incoming clinical data before loading it into Circadia’s MySQL and Snowflake environments.
• Ensure pipelines are robust, fault‑tolerant, and capable of handling large data volumes.

Healthcare Data & EHR Integrations

• Integrate and manage healthcare data domains including:
• Admissions, Discharges, Transfers (ADT)
• Conditions, medications, allergies
• Clinical notes and progress notes
• Vitals and physiological measurements
• Work with healthcare interoperability standards and protocols such as HL7 v2, FHIR.
• Partner with customer technical teams to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and ongoing data reliability.

Data Platforms & Warehousing

• Take ownership of Circadia’s operational databases and analytical data warehouses.
• Design schemas and transformations that support both real‑time application needs and downstream analytics and ML workloads.
• Optimize performance, cost, and scalability within Snowflake and MySQL.

Cloud Deployment & Operations

• Deploy and operate data pipelines and services in AWS.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards for data workflows.
• Support production reliability, incident response, and continuous improvement of data systems.

Security, Compliance & Data Quality

• Ensure all data pipelines meet healthcare security and privacy requirements, including HIPAA and SOC 2.
• Apply best practices for handling Protected Health Information (PHI), including access control, encryption, and audit logging.
• Maintain clear documentation of data flows, transformations, and operational processes.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely with Data Science and ML teams to support model training and evaluation.
• Feature generation and data labeling workflows.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to develop internal tooling for data ingestion, validation, and monitoring.
• Participate in architecture discussions to ensure data systems scale with Circadia’s growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, or a closely related role.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data pipeline and backend development.
• Strong proficiency in SQL.
• Hands‑on experience with MySQL and Snowflake, including schema design and performance optimization.
• Experience integrating data from Microsoft SQL Server, including log shipping or CDC‑style approaches.
• Experience building high‑throughput data pipelines from ingestion through transformation and storage.
• Experienced deploying and operating production systems in a major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data.
• Experience integrating with EHR systems (e.g., Epic, Homecare Homease, PointClickCare).
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Experience supporting machine learning or data science teams.
• Experience with data orchestration, workflow management, or streaming systems.
• Background in healthcare, medical devices, or clinical data systems.
• Exposure to HIPAA compliance and healthcare security best practices.