Staff Data Engineer & Platform Leader (Hybrid)

Metriport Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental and vision

401(k) matching

Flexible work

Lunches in-office

Quarterly off-sites

MacBook provided

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Metriport Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Engineer in San Francisco, hybrid setup. You will own the data platform end-to-end, guiding architecture, data reliability, and governance while mentoring engineers and delivering scale-ready pipelines.

The role emphasizes building at speed with quality, supporting AI/ML data needs, and collaborating across teams to advance our healthcare data platform and product with minimal bureaucracy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience building, operating, and scaling data platforms handling terabytes and billions of events daily.
• Designed data architectures end-to-end — ingestion, storage, processing, warehousing, serving — with tradeoffs on cost, latency, and operability.
• Deep experience with cloud-native data stacks (Spark, Parquet/Iceberg/Delta on S3, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow/Dagster, Kafka/Kinesis).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; production code in TypeScript/Python beyond orchestration configs.
• Experience mentoring engineers through reviews, pairing, and design feedback.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for the data platform, evolving warehouse/data lake and ETL/ELT architectures at scale.
• Lead end-to-end data projects from design to v1 delivery with fast iteration.
• Support AI/ML efforts by ensuring data availability and quality for models.
• Mentor engineers, review designs/PRs, and balance quality with speed of delivery.
• Act as Team Lead for a group of engineers, breaking down work and owning delivery while remaining hands-on.

Skills

Data platform design

Team leadership

Cloud data stacks

Production coding (TypeScript/Python)

Healthcare data knowledge

Tools

Spark

Parquet

Iceberg

Delta

Job description

Metriport Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Engineer in San Francisco, hybrid setup. You will own the data platform end-to-end, guiding architecture, data reliability, and governance while mentoring engineers and delivering scale-ready pipelines.

The role emphasizes building at speed with quality, supporting AI/ML data needs, and collaborating across teams to advance our healthcare data platform and product with minimal bureaucracy.