Lead Data Engineer, Vida Health
Data Platform
$165-175k
More information about location
Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
Open for applications
Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$165-175k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform lives by addressing both physical and mental health trough personalized, human-centered care.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors Degree at a minimum
- 7+ years in data engineering, with meaningful ownership of production pipelines and quality systems
- Deep dbt experience—you've maintained real deployments, not just prototypes
- Strong SQL and data modeling instincts, with an eye for performance and cost
- Python fluency for tooling, validation and automation
- Hands-on experience with data quality monitoring: contracts, freshness checks, schema enforcement and alerting
- Have led or mentored small engineering teams, formally or informally
- You think in systems—and you fix root causes, not just symptoms
What the job involves
- Vida Health is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own the reliability and integrity of the data platform that powers our clinical programs, billing and partner reporting
- You will own how data flows through Vida—from ingestion through governed outputs, ensuring the pipelines behind member care, revenue and client commitments are accurate, observable and resilient
- This means building the foundations that catch failures early, isolate breakages and let engineering teams ship with confidence
- Own end-to-end reliability for core data pipelines—from ingestion through billing and reporting outputs
- Build observability foundations: health dashboards, tiered alerting and on-call signals that are actionable, not noisy
- Harden data ingestion with typed staging, quarantine patterns, freshness gates and safe backfill and replay capabilities
- Enforce schema contracts and quality validation so failures are caught in CI, not discovered by stakeholders
- Establish clear boundaries between governed core data and downstream BI and reporting layers
- Lead incident retrospectives that fix root causes, not just symptoms, and reduce future on-call burden
- Mentor 2–4 data engineers through code reviews, pairing and growth conversations
Our take
Technology presents a vast range of solutions to help improve the quality of care that individuals can access, including health tracking apps, digital medical appointments and virtual health coaching. However, these innovations have ultimately resulted in a tangle of resources and solutions which can be difficult or inconvenient to access.
Vida Health integrates a wide variety of these innovations in the healthcare industry into packages, aiming to provide improved healthcare to individuals, employers and health insurers with an organized selection of physical and mental health services. This approach is more convenient and effective than finding and signing on to individual services, and Vida has accordingly grown a large customer base including the likes of PayPal, eBay and Prudential.
With the mass of options available to improve healthcare becoming overwhelming, Vida Health has been smart to identify the need for an integrated solution. Investors agree - it has attracted significant levels of funding. Going forward the company is well poised to grow further as employers increasingly realize the importance of supporting their employees' mental and physical health needs.
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Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2023
$28.5m
LATE VC
May 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.5m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joe M.
(CEO & President)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2023, Joe was CEO and President at WithMe Health and PokitDok. He also spent over 4 years at Willis Towers Watson as COO of Exchange Solutions and as President of Extend Insurance Services & HEad of Individual Exchange.
Richard Frank
(CMO)Richard joined Vida Health in 2022 as a Senior VP of Medical Affairs, moving into the role of CMO later that same year. He is currently a Board Member at Conversio Health, a Medical Advisor at PharmD Live and Warburg Pincus and a Scientific Advisor at MyndYou.
Mike Rolla
(CGO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2024, Mike was the CRO at AliveCor and CGO at CCS.
Jason Macaleer
(CSO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2025, Jason spent over 2 years at Transcarent as an Executive VP of Sales and as Chief Commercial Officer. He also spent 2 years at Teladoc Health and 5 years at Livongo.
Tamara Bohlig
(CMO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2024, Tamara was an Associate/CMO at The CMO Syndicate and a Fractional CMO, Growth Marketer & Executive Advisor at Spark CMO.
David Osborne
(CPO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2025, David was a VP/GM of Sword Predict AI at Sword Health. He was also a Director in the Office of the CEO at Noom for over 3 years.
Veeneta Lakhani
(COO)Veeneta joined Vida Health in 2019 as an SVP of Health Services, moving into the role of CGO in 2021 and COO in 2025. Previously she founded Incipio Services where she served as a Principal & Advisor for over 7 years. She also spent 9 years at Anthem in various VP roles.
Ravi Guha
(CFO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2023, Ravi was the CFO at Heal for nearly 4 years. He also spent nearly 18 years at Canyon Partners as a Managing Director.
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