Senior Data Engineer - Data Operations

Senior Data Engineer - Data Operations

Based in San Francisco, Arine is a rapidly growing healthcare technology and clinical services company with a mission to ensure individuals receive the safest and most effective treatments for their unique and evolving healthcare needs.

Frequently, medications cause more harm than good. Incorrect drugs and doses costs the US healthcare system over $528 billion in waste, avoidable harm, and hospitalizations each year. Arine is redefining what excellent healthcare looks like by solving these issues through our software platform (SaaS). We combine cutting edge data science, machine learning, AI, and deep clinical expertise to introduce a patient-centric view to medication management, and develop and deliver personalized care plans on a massive scale for patients and their care teams.

Arine is committed to improving the lives and health of complex patients that have an outsized impact on healthcare costs and have traditionally been difficult to identify and address. These patients face numerous challenges including complicated prescribing issues across multiple medications and providers, medication challenges with many chronic diseases, and patient issues with access to care. Backed by leading healthcare investors and collaborating with top healthcare organizations and providers, we deliver recommendations and facilitate clinical interventions that lead to significant, measurable health improvements for patients and cost savings for customers.

Why is Arine a Great Place to Work?

Outstanding Team and Culture - Our shared mission unites and motivates us to do our best work. We have a relentless passion and commitment to the innovation required to be the market leader in medication intelligence.

Making a Proven Difference in Healthcare - We are saving patient lives, and enabling individuals to experience improved health outcomes, including significant reductions in hospitalizations and cost of care.

Market Opportunity - Arine is backed by leading healthcare investors and was founded to tackle one of the largest healthcare problems today. Non-optimized medications therapies which cost the US 275,000 lives and $528 billion annually.

Dramatic Growth - Arine is managing more than 18 million lives across prominent health plans after only 4 years in the market, and was ranked 236 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list and was named the 5th fastest-growing company in the AI category.

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining scalable data ingestion infrastructure and operational systems. You focus on the "EL" portion of our ELT stack, collaborating closely with analytics engineers. You are an expert at building robust, configuration-driven systems and event-driven processes that handle large enterprise datasets.

This role requires deep experience in incremental data migration from sources like RDS and DynamoDB into Snowflake using tools like Kinesis or Airbyte. You are comfortable with containerization and committed to building maintainable toolsets that the broader engineering team can utilize.

What You'll be Doing

• Developing and optimizing scalable data ingestion pipelines from platform sources (RDS, DynamoDB) into Snowflake.
• Building event-driven pipelines using Kinesis, Airbyte, or other open-source frameworks to handle high-volume healthcare data.
• Implementing and maintaining a staging-layer architecture that supports the broader medallion (staging ? intermediate ? marts) structure.
• Creating configuration-driven, containerized toolsets (Docker/Kubernetes) to ensure data solutions are portable and maintainable.
• Ensuring data reliability by building comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and automated testing for all ingestion processes.
• Collaborating with analytics engineers to streamline the flow of data for dbt transformation.
• Applying software engineering best practices, including modular design and test-driven development, to all data infrastructure.
• Refactoring existing ingestion processes to improve performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Mentoring mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews and sharing best practices in data operations.

Who You Are and What You Bring

• 4-6+ years of professional experience in data engineering with a focus on data ingestion and infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a track record of building production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong experience with ingestion tools such as Kinesis, Airbyte, Kafka, or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and moving data from operational databases (RDS, DynamoDB) to cloud data warehouses.
• Solid understanding of AWS services (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and deploying maintainable systems.
• Knowledge of ELT patterns, specifically supporting analytics engineering workflows and dbt.
• Experience with CDC (Change Data Capture) and incremental processing methodologies.
• Detail-oriented mindset regarding data privacy and compliance (HIPAA experience is a plus).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across data science and engineering teams.

Remote Work Requirements

• An established private work area that ensures information privacy
• A stable high-speed internet connection for remote work
• This role is remote, but you will be required to come to on-site meetings multiple times per year. This may be in the interview process, onboarding, and team meetings

Perks: Joining Arine offers you a dynamic role and the opportunity to contribute to the company's growth and shape its future. You'll have unparalleled learning and growth prospects, collaborating closely with experienced Clinicians, Engineers, Software Architects, and Digital Health Entrepreneurs.

The posted range represents the expected salary for this position and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, benefits, and perks. Ultimately, the final pay decision will consider factors such as your experience, job level, location, and other relevant job-related criteria. The salary range for this position is: $150,000-170,000/year.

Job Requirements

• Ability to pass a background check
• Must live in and be eligible to work in the United States

All staff at Arine are expected to be part of its Information Security Management Program and undergo periodic training on Information Security Awareness and HIPAA guidelines. Each user is responsible to maintain a secure working environment and follow all policies and procedures. Upon hire, each person is assigned and must complete trainings before access is granted for their specific role within Arine.

Arine is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are treated with fairness and respect. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our hiring decisions and employment practices are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission.