Staff Data Engineer
Jobgether
$170,000–$185,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on designing and maintaining large-scale data infrastructure in a healthcare technology setting. The work centers on building ETL/ELT pipelines, transformation frameworks using Python, SQL, and dbt, and containerized pipeline components on AWS, while also driving adoption of AI-assisted development tooling. The position carries a mentorship and technical leadership dimension, collaborating across engineering, clinical, and operational stakeholders.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 470 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 140–710
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (7)
The title is 'Staff Data Engineer' but the requirements — 10+ years, technical leadership, mentorship, cross-team collaboration — are well within the Senior band on a normal career ladder. The 'Staff' designation here reads more as a title choice than a genuine org-wide technical authority role, so seniority is assessed as Senior.
SOC is a close call: the role centers on designing and building large-scale data pipelines and transformation frameworks (15-1243 Database Architects) but involves substantial software engineering (Python, containerization, CI/CD-adjacent practices) that could also fit 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1243 was chosen because the primary deliverable is data infrastructure architecture and ETL/ELT platform design.
AWS is listed as a hard requirement ('Expertise designing and operating scalable data solutions in AWS environments') but the qualifier 'or similar' is not used; alternatives have been populated with the common cloud peers a hiring manager would likely accept.
AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) are listed as a single interchangeable requirement in the Requirements section; emitted as one skill with alternatives.
Healthcare data standards (HL7, 834, 837, NCPDP) are explicitly called 'a plus' in the posting and are therefore marked as preferred. 834 and 837 are EDI transaction sets closely related to HL7/NCPDP contexts and are captured under those preferred skills.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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