Sr. Staff / Staff / Senior Data Engineer

Evidation; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Evidation seeks a Staff Data Engineer to provide technical leadership across Data Engineering in a healthcare data environment. You’ll guide architectural decisions, mentor peers, and deliver customer-facing data solutions that create measurable business impact.

Role balances strategic vision with hands-on execution, translating complex requirements into scalable, maintainable systems while aligning Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production data systems; recent Staff-level IC experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Data Engineering; participate in architecture/design reviews and drive cross-team initiatives.
• Architect and evolve the ELT platform at scale: CDC/ingest, orchestration, transformation, runtime/ops model, and data export.
• Integrate healthcare data sources (EHR/FHIR, labs, genomics, wearables, claims) with strong data governance.
• Build and maintain secure, high-quality data pipelines and customer-facing data products.
• Partner with Data Science to design and operationalize feature pipelines, model inputs, serving, and monitoring.
• Deliver AI/ML platform capabilities including feature stores, model hosting, monitoring, and retrieval workflows.
• Lead AI adoption across Data Engineering: copilot, codegen templates, agents, automated data documentation/dictionary, and AI-assisted data quality triage.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions.

Skills

Staff-level IC

Technical leadership

AWS

Snowflake

DBT

Airflow/Prefect/Dagster

Kafka/Kinesis

SQL

Python/Scala

Terraform/Pulumi

Data visualization

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

DBT

Airflow

Kafka

Kinesis

Tableau

Looker

Streamlit

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

About Evidation

Evidation creates new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life—making proactive, personalized, and truly human-centered healthcare possible. By connecting directly with millions of individuals, Evidation harnesses real-world data to deeply understand health experiences, rapidly and at scale. Evidation’s privacy-centric digital health measurement and engagement platform uses data science and machine learning to translate these everyday insights into high-impact health guidance, treatments, and tools. Founded in 2012, Evidation is headquartered in California with employees working around the globe.

About the role

Provide technical leadership across Data Engineering in a healthcare data environment. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and communication skills to influence direction across teams. The Staff Data Engineer acts as a trusted technical partner to internal and external stakeholders, guiding architectural decisions, mentoring peers, and ensuring delivery of customer-facing data solutions that create measurable business impact. Success in this role requires balancing strategic vision with hands‑on execution, translating complex requirements into scalable, maintainable systems while fostering collaboration and alignment across Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship; participate in architecture/design reviews and drive cross-team initiatives.
• Help architect and evolve the ELT platform at scale: CDC/ingest, orchestration, transformation, runtime/ops model, and data export.
• Integrate healthcare data sources (EHR/FHIR, labs, genomics, wearables, claims) with strong data governance.
• Build and maintain secure, high-quality data pipelines and customer-facing data products.
• Partner with Data Science to design and operationalize feature pipelines, model inputs, serving, and monitoring.
• Deliver AI/ML platform capabilities including feature stores, model hosting, monitoring, and retrieval workflows.
• Lead AI adoption across Data Engineering: copilot, codegen templates, agents, automated data documentation/dictionary, and AI-assisted data quality triage.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production data systems; recent Staff-level IC experience.
• Proven technical leadership across architecture, design, and cross-functional delivery.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster, and streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis) and database CDC.
• Expert‑level SQL and proficiency in Python/Scala with tests/CI for data code.
• Cloud infrastructure experience (S3, Kubernetes/EKS) and IaC (Terraform/Pulumi).
• Experience with data visualization tools (Streamlit, Tableau, Looker) and reporting automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep Snowflake expertise (micropartitions, clustering, cost optimization).
• Experience integrating healthcare or regulated data sources (EHR, FHIR, HL7, wearable, or partner datasets such as Datavant).
• Experience scaling dbt and managing enterprise data testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with vector databases, LLMs, and RAG/LLMOps pipelines.
• Experience delivering using AI-powered data engineering tools (copilot, sandboxes, automated documentation).

*This job description outlines primary duties and requirements and is not intended to identify all tasks that may be performed; individuals occupying the position may be required to perform other duties. The company may modify job duties from time to time, either in practice or in writing.

At Evidation, we strive to build an equitable and inclusive space where everyone - employees, partners, and participants - belongs and feels valued. Evidation Health values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic.

We will also reasonably accommodate the physical and/or mental disabilities of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability in order to enable the applicant to complete the application or interview process, providing undue hardship on Evidation Health would not result.

The compensation for this full-time position includes salary + bonus + equity + benefits. The actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including, experience, training, and skill level, so pay for this role may be higher or lower than what is shown on this posting.

The pay range for this role is:

140,000 - 350,000 USD per year (Santa Barbara)