Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer supporting analytics and machine learning at Podimetrics. Building and maintaining data systems and pipelines for early diabetic foot ulcer detection.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure, including but not limited to enterprise data warehouse structures and pipelines in BigQuery.
  • Develop and maintain dbt models, tests, and documentation to standardize and transform data in line with our data strategy.
  • Ensure consistent, reliable data structures by owning data modeling standards, documentation, and best practices.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve existing pipelines with an emphasis on automation, maintainability, and data quality.
  • Partner with analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to design datasets that are high quality, well-modeled, and optimized.
  • Design and implement data ingestion patterns from event streams, translating operational events into analytical structures in BigQuery.
  • Implement best practices for data testing, data lineage, and data governance within dbt and downstream tools.
  • Investigate and resolve data quality issues by identifying root causes and delivering sustainable, technically sound solutions.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve data reliability, scalability, and usability across the organization.
  • Use AI coding tools (LLMs, code generation, etc.) to accelerate development and set the standard for AI-native engineering practices on the team

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering or a related technical role.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based warehouses (BigQuery strongly preferred).
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python - you write production-quality, maintainable code, not just scripts
  • Hands-on experience with dbt - build, test, deploy, document models
  • Experience with Git/GitHub and modern CI/CD practices for data.
  • Experience with structured logging, monitoring, and observability tools.
  • Experience with CI/CD for data (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, etc.)
  • Experience working with or adjacent to ML/data science workflows - feature stores, training pipelines, or analytical modeling
  • Demonstrated use of AI/LLM tools in an engineering workflow (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and message bus systems (GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent), and clear understanding of stream processing, event schemas, and consumer patterns

Benefits:

  • Base Pay: $130-$150k base salary commensurate with experience
  • Annual Bonus Opportunity
  • Equity Options
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans – Podimetrics covers 80% of premiums.
  • Health Savings Account with employer contribution
  • Employee Assistance Program - Free, confidential advice for team members who need help with stress, anxiety, financial planning, and legal issues.
  • 401k
  • Life Insurance - Podimetrics pays 100% of the cost of Basic Life & Personal Accident
  • Disability insurance – Podimetrics pays 100% of the cost of Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Additional life insurance, critical illness, and accident coverage are available