Staff Data Engineer at Hims & Hers
$170,000–$200,000
Jul 26, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Data Engineer role on the Data Platform Engineering team at a consumer telehealth company, responsible for cross-squad technical leadership across a full modern data stack. The engineer will own end-to-end design and delivery of ingestion pipelines, event streaming infrastructure, data quality frameworks, and IaC-provisioned connectors that serve analytics, data science, and ML teams supporting millions of subscribers. The role involves both hands-on production work and mentoring senior engineers.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 10–65
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is explicitly titled 'Staff Data Engineer' and the scope — driving architectural decisions across multiple squads, owning cross-team platform initiatives, and mentoring Senior DEs — genuinely supports the Staff band rather than Senior.
SOC classification is a close call between 15-1243 (Database Architects, covering data pipeline and warehouse architecture) and 15-1252 (Software Developers, given the heavy production coding in Python/PySpark and IaC). The pipeline architecture and data platform ownership tipped the primary choice to 15-1243.
Flink is listed in the required qualifications section ('Experience with Flink for stream processing'), making it a hard gate despite being a single line; it is marked required accordingly.
Datadog is named in the responsibilities section ('implement Datadog monitoring and alerting as code') rather than in a formal requirements block; however, it is framed as a direct ownership expectation rather than optional context, so it is marked required.
CDC (Change Data Capture) appears in the required qualifications as a named pattern/technology and is marked required.
The posting references 'Astronomer' as the managed Airflow platform; this is captured under the canonical 'Airflow' skill name.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
Location is not explicitly stated; the company is headquartered in San Francisco and the role is described as flexible/remote, so the CBSA reflects the company HQ city while remote is set to true.
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