Staff Data Engineer

We are a very profitable and fast-growing healthcare startup—a small and mighty team of 200 helping people find and enroll in ACA health coverage. As the largest health insurance exchange for the ACA, enrolling more individuals than healthcare.gov and all our competitors, we have helped over 15 million people enroll in health coverage to date through 2024. We're a mission-driven team that advocates for and cares deeply about the people we serve.

We're a double bottom-line company: revenues and enrollments in ACA coverage. The ACA brings high-quality, comprehensive, affordable health coverage within reach for low-income Americans, and we exist to make that promise a reality. Your contribution will help hundreds of thousands of people navigate the complex and confusing health insurance industry and enable them to access health care when needed.

We are committed to building a team balanced in representation to serve best the people who use our products. We believe in creating inclusive and equitable spaces that build trust and respect and foster a sense of belonging. These values are at the core of our culture and will continue to lead our organization to successful outcomes.

We’re hiring a Staff Data Engineer to serve as the single‑threaded owner of our data platform and the architect of our company‑wide data vision. You will define the strategy for how we collect, govern, and activate data at scale. Your mandate is to design, build, and operate a next‑generation lake‑house that turns raw events into trusted insights, raising the bar for every feature launch and business decision. This role is for builders who want end‑to‑end accountability and the mandate to invent and simplify the way our company uses data.

This is a US-based, fully remote role, reporting to the SVP of Product and Engineering.

The base salary range is $174,000-$235,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. This salary band encompasses both the Senior Engineer II and the Staff levels, and within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related experience. Your recruiter can share more about the salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

• Deliver a unified lake‑house – architect, launch, and own an enterprise‑grade data lake + warehouse that scales 10× and fuels every analytic and ML use‑case

• Automate the data life‑cycle – build fault‑tolerant, test‑covered ELT pipelines that move data from event to insight in minutes, with self‑healing and observability baked in

• Operate & maintain the platform – own day‑to‑day reliability, capacity planning, and upgrades for the data infrastructure and self‑service BI layer

• Set the roadmap – define the long‑term data platform vision, success metrics, and engineering bar; increase adoption and raise standards across the company

• 8+ years designing and shipping cloud-native production data platforms and pipelines, fluent in SQL and at least one modern language (e.g., Python, Scala, Java)

• Proven record of operating cloud‑scale data lakes/warehouses at TB–PB volume and billions‑of‑row throughput

• Deep expertise with modern workflow orchestration and CI/CD practices; infrastructure‑as‑code, automated testing, and lineage/quality monitoring are second nature

• Advanced performance‑tuning and cost‑optimization skills across storage, compute, and query engines

• Hands‑on experience with high‑throughput event‑stream processing and real‑time analytics (BONUS)

• Familiarity with analytics‑engineering best practices: declarative SQL modeling, data‑quality tests, and documentation‑as‑code (BONUS)

• Remote-first company (US-based remote only)

• Great compensation package at a high-growth, profitable company

• Excellent benefits package that includes health, vision, and dental coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents

• HSA/FSA options with corresponding contribution limits

• Monthly grocery stipend and home internet reimbursement

• 401K w/ a match after a grace period

• Life and AD&D coverage

• Disability insurance (Short and Long Term)

• Parental leave

• Four (4) weeks of paid vacation in addition to paid holidays

• Home office budget for remote team members

• Mental health and other wellbeing support programs through a partner network
  

We welcome and encourage people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, identities, abilities, and perspectives to apply. We are an equal-opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come join the team at HealthSherpa!