Principal Data Engineer
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Principal Data Engineer designing and implementing Zócalo Health’s data infrastructure. Responsible for building pipelines and data models for analytics and operational visibility.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end design of Zócalo Health’s data platform, including warehouse, lake, and ingestion architecture
- Build and operate production data pipelines across clinical, operational, and third-party systems (APIs, CDC, events)
- Define core analytical and longitudinal data models used across the company
- Build robust data ingestion frameworks, including Change Data Capture (CDC), API-based ingestion, and event or webhook-driven pipelines
- Implement testing, monitoring, and observability practices to ensure data quality, pipeline reliability, and system performance
- Apply strong engineering fundamentals to improve scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of data systems
- Partner with Product to ensure data systems support metric definitions, outcome measurement, and roadmap prioritization.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering roles with significant data platform responsibility
- Proven experience designing and building data infrastructure, pipelines, and data models from the ground up
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including comfort reasoning about distributed systems and data processing at scale
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and tooling, including SQL-based transformation workflows
- Experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines
- Ability to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and data quality issues in complex systems
- Strong ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments
- Clear communicator able to partner effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits:
- Equity compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k
- Flexible PTO policy - take the time you need to recharge
- $1,000 home office stipend
- We provide the equipment needed for this role.
- Opportunity for rapid career progression with plenty of room for personal growth.
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