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LeadFull-timePythonRust
Salary Range
$165,000 - $175,000 /year
About the Role
Vida Health is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to ensure the reliability and integrity of their data platform that powers clinical programs, billing, and partner reporting. This role involves owning the data flow from ingestion through governed outputs, building foundations to catch failures early, and enabling engineering teams to ship with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
- →Own end-to-end reliability for core data pipelines—from ingestion through billing and reporting outputs.
- →Build observability foundations: health dashboards, tiered alerting and on-call signals that are actionable.
- →Harden data ingestion with typed staging, quarantine patterns, freshness gates and safe backfill capabilities.
- →Enforce schema contracts and quality validation to catch failures in CI.
- →Establish clear boundaries between governed core data and downstream BI and reporting layers.
- →Lead incident retrospectives that fix root causes and reduce future on-call burden.
- →Mentor 2–4 data engineers through code reviews, pairing and growth conversations.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelors Degree at a minimum.
- ✓7+ years in data engineering with ownership of production pipelines and quality systems.
- ✓Deep dbt experience with real deployments.
- ✓Strong SQL and data modeling instincts with an eye for performance and cost.
- ✓Python fluency for tooling, validation and automation.
- ✓Hands-on experience with data quality monitoring: contracts, freshness checks, schema enforcement and alerting.
- ✓Experience leading or mentoring small engineering teams.
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