Senior Data Engineer

Role Description

Every release we ship serves families living with dementia. As our Senior Data Engineer, you will be the person who turns that flood of data into something a clinician, an analyst, and an AI model can each trust. You will design the ingestion, validation, and curation layers that sit between our partners and our products:

• A durable landing zone for raw data
• Pipelines shipping data into our transactional Postgres database
• A clean analytics layer that lets data science, BI, and AI features move fast without ever putting our production system at risk

We value simplicity over sprawl, so a measured approach to introducing complexity and new tooling is important. If you love Postgres, write SQL like prose, and have strong, yet gently held opinions about when a data lake earns its complexity, this role is built for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and own Ceresti's end-to-end data architecture
• Build ingestion pipelines for the data we receive today
• Stand up and operate the curated layer (data warehouse / lakehouse-lite)
• Choose, integrate, and operate the smallest set of tools needed
• Design and enforce data governance for a HIPAA-regulated environment
• Partner with backend, ML, product, and clinical stakeholders to define data contracts
• Build and maintain reliable feature data for ML models
• Instrument the data platform for observability
• Participate fully in our Agile process
• Mentor engineers across the team on SQL, schema design, and the craft of building data systems

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of professional data engineering experience
• Mastery of PostgreSQL
• Strong experience designing and operating data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Experience designing data warehouses and/or data lakes
• Strong experience with dbt or equivalent SQL-based transformation framework
• Experience with at least one orchestration framework
• Strong Python skills for ingestion, validation, and tooling
• Experience with data validation and data-quality frameworks
• Experience with change-data-capture from Postgres
• Data governance experience in a HIPAA-regulated environment
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for data systems
• Experience supporting ML workloads
• Experience using AI coding assistants
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum teams

Requirements

• Reliable, persistent and results-oriented
• Easy to get along with; able to work with a team
• Must demonstrate a high level of integrity and ownership
• Consistently transparent, courageous and enthusiastic
• Bias toward simplicity
• Must be able to pass a background check

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment
• Flexible work arrangements and remote work options
• Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools
• The chance to do work that directly improves the lives of patients with dementia

Company Description

Ceresti is on a mission to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and improve care for people living with dementia while improving the lives of their families and caregivers. We envision a world in which family caregivers of people living with dementia are supported and have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide the best possible care for their loved ones.

Ceresti is a tech-enabled dementia care provider with a differentiated model of care that improves outcomes and delivers guaranteed cost savings by including family caregivers in the care team. Our culture is rooted in agility, innovation, and collaboration.