Staff Data Platform Engineer: Snowflake & AWS

Verse Medical; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance fully covered

401(k) plan (no match)

Job summary

Verse Medical is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data platform layer and scale infrastructure powering our product and operations. You’ll be the technical authority on pipelines, warehouse config, observability, and new integrations, closing gaps and raising the quality bar as the data function grows.

The role demands deep Snowflake expertise, SQL, Python, AWS, and data governance, plus mentoring teammates and guiding architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or software engineering with experience owning production data infrastructure end‑to‑end.
• Deep Snowflake expertise, including warehouse configuration, RBAC and role hierarchy design, connector management, cost optimization, and performance tuning at the compute layer.
• Expert SQL, dbt, and Python skills, with experience building complex, high‑performance queries and production‑grade pipeline code.
• Proven experience building and maintaining source pipelines, including CDC via logical replication, Fivetran or Airbyte connector management, custom API ingestion, orchestration, and S3‑based ingestion patterns.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, governance, privacy, and observability best practices.
• AWS infrastructure fluency, including RDS parameter groups, S3 bucket policies, IAM role configuration, VPC networking, and security groups.
• Preferred: Experience working across application systems and data systems, with an understanding of how they interact.
• Preferred: Experience with data platform migrations, specifically running legacy and new environments in parallel.
• Preferred: Familiarity with healthcare or other regulated data (HIPAA compliance).
• Preferred: Experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure‑as‑code tooling.
• Preferred: Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including query optimization, database telemetry / monitoring / maintenance, index design, and RDS‑specific configuration and tuning.
• Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers and guiding cross‑functional architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Snowflake platform end‑to‑end as usage scales.
• Own source pipeline reliability and expansion, evaluating connections for reliability, freshness SLAs, edge case handling, and schema drift resilience, while building net‑new integrations.
• Ensure data accuracy, quality, and compliance through governance, observability, and monitoring best practices.
• Own pipeline incident response with speed and clear communication, identifying root causes to prevent recurrence.
• Improve data architecture and storage to enhance performance, lower costs, and optimize batch workflows as data volume grows.
• Serve as the technical authority on data infrastructure decisions, setting standards and guiding architectural choices for scale.

Skills

Snowflake expertise

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

AWS

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Data governance

Mentoring

Healthcare data

Job description

Verse Medical is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to own the data platform layer and scale infrastructure powering our product and operations. You’ll be the technical authority on pipelines, warehouse config, observability, and new integrations, closing gaps and raising the quality bar as the data function grows.

The role demands deep Snowflake expertise, SQL, Python, AWS, and data governance, plus mentoring teammates and guiding architectural decisions.