Staff Data Engineer
Verse Medical · New York City, NY
$200,000–$240,000
Jul 20, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on owning and scaling a company's data platform infrastructure. Day-to-day work centers on managing Snowflake environments, maintaining and expanding source pipelines, handling incident response, and making architectural decisions around data storage and governance. Suited to an experienced data engineer comfortable with end-to-end production ownership across tools such as dbt, Python, Fivetran or Airbyte, and AWS.
Staff level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 2–10
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,433 (middle half $95,331–$179,625).
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)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building and owning data pipeline/warehouse infrastructure (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but the emphasis on production-grade Python pipeline code and custom API ingestion also has meaningful overlap with 15-1252 Software Developers.
Seniority is assessed as Staff (not Senior) because the JD explicitly titles the role 'Staff Data Engineer' and describes org-wide technical authority — setting standards and guiding architectural decisions across the data function — which is genuine Staff-level scope, not just a long experience requirement.
Fivetran and Airbyte are listed together as interchangeable connector management options in the requirements block; captured as one skill with Airbyte as an alternative.
CDC (change data capture via logical replication) is listed as a distinct required capability alongside connector tools; captured separately.
AWS sub-services (RDS, S3, IAM, VPC) are listed explicitly as required; each is captured as its own skill given they represent distinct, separately-named capabilities.
Terraform is listed under Preferred with the qualifier 'or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling'; captured as preferred with no alternatives named since the posting leaves the substitute open-ended.
PostgreSQL, HIPAA familiarity, data platform migration experience, and mentoring experience are all explicitly marked 'Preferred' in the posting.
No compensation figures are disclosed; the posting only mentions 'competitive compensation.'
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