Staff Data Engineer - Emerald
$170,000–$190,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Senior Staff Data Engineer on the Real World Evidence (RWE) team, driving end-to-end architecture for critical data assets and large-scale pipelines (hundreds of TBs). Lead high-visibility projects, unblock teams, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, data science, and downstream engineering to deliver high-value outcomes. Act as a technical leader who can operate across the full data and infrastructure stack, ensuring scalable, reliable solutions and shaping roadmaps. This role emphasizes ownership, cross-functional influence, and hands-on implementation, with US-hours alignment and the opportunity to work from anywhere.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years as a software, data, or backend engineer building and operating scalable, production-grade systems
- Experience with large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark/PySpark on EMR or similar) or scalable distributed backend systems
- Strong proficiency in SQL, including writing and optimizing complex queries over large datasets
- Strong programming experience in Python
- Experience designing systems or large-scale datasets/pipelines with attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Hands-on experience with Git, JIRA, and CI/CD systems (e.g., CircleCI)
- Comfort deploying and troubleshooting distributed workloads in cloud environments such as AWS EMR or Kubernetes
- Experience with workflow orchestration or job scheduling tools (e.g., Airflow, Argo)
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive complex, cross-team technical initiatives and influence stakeholders without formal authority
- Background in RWE, healthcare data, or other complex/regulated data domains is preferred
- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to accelerate development while maintaining quality
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