Staff Data Engineer, Thoughtful AI
$190-250k
California Salary Range. Offers Employee Stock Options
AI operating system for healthcare RCM teams
Posted today
AI operating system for healthcare RCM teams
21-100 employees
Posted today
$190-250k
California Salary Range. Offers Employee Stock Options
21-100 employees
Company mission
Tto fix the U.S. healthcare system.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines in production environments
- Strong knowledge of the data lakehouse ecosystem, with an emphasis on AWS data services - particularly Glue, S3, Athena/Trino/PrestoDB, and Aurora
- Proficiency in Python, Spark and Athena/Trino/PrestoDB for data transformation and orchestration
- Experience managing infrastructure with OpenTofu/Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Solid understanding of data modeling, partitioning strategies, schema evolution, and performance tuning
- Comfortable working with cloud-native data pipelines and batch processing (streaming experience is a plus but not required)
- Systems thinker - you understand the tradeoffs in data architecture and design for long-term stability and clarity
- Outcome-driven - you focus on building useful, maintainable systems that serve real business needs
- Strong collaborator - you're comfortable working across teams and surfacing data requirements early
- Practical and hands-on - able to dive into logs, schemas, and IAM policies when needed
- Thoughtful contributor - committed to improving code quality, developer experience, and documentation across the board
What the job involves
- We're looking for Staff Data Engineers to help scale and strengthen our data platform
- Our data stack today consists of Aurora RDS, AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg, S3 (Parquet), Spark and Athena - supporting a range of use cases from operational reporting to downstream services
- We’re looking to grow the team with engineers who can help improve performance, increase reliability, and expand the platform's capabilities as our data volume and complexity continue to grow
- You’ll work closely with other engineers to evolve our existing pipelines, improve observability and data quality, and enable faster, more flexible access to data across the company
- The platform is deployed on AWS using OpenTofu, and we’re looking for engineers who bring strong cloud infrastructure fundamentals alongside deep experience in data engineering
- Build: Develop and maintain data pipelines and transformations across the stack. Starting from ingesting transactional data into the data lakehouse to refining data up the medallion data architecture
- Optimize: Tune performance, storage layout, and cost-efficiency across our data storage and query engines
- Extend: Help design and implement new data ingestion patterns and improve platform observability and reliability
- Collaborate: Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver well-structured, trustworthy data for diverse use cases
- Contribute: Help establish and evolve best practices for our data infrastructure, from pipeline design to OpenTofu-managed resource provisioning
- Secure: Help design and implement a data governance strategy to secure our data lakehouse
Our take
Staffing is one of the most expensive contributors to business operation expenses, leading OpEx teams to minimize workforce sizes to cut costs. However, this often results in unfilled roles leading to larger workloads for employees, a sacrifice that can lead to lower-quality work and expensive errors.
Thoughtful develops bespoke back office automation bots, allowing businesses to hire bots that are specifically designed to automate their tasks and workflows. After onboarding, the company monitors and provides reports on the performance of each bot, allowing clients to see the value of each bot and whether adjustments are needed.
Whilst back office automation tools are nothing new, these generally work as integrations within other platforms, whereas Thoughtul’s bots are uniquely designed to emulate a position that would otherwise be staffed by a human. The company claims that its bots can help OpEx teams minimize staffing costs and optimize workflows whilst preventing any risk associated with cost cutting.
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Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $35.9m
Company benefits
- Robust Medical/Dental/Vision plans with Employer supported premiums
- Quarterly Company get-togethers
- Gym/Health Perks
- Early employee equity
- Getting your hands dirty at the ground level
- PTO (Sabbatical after 4 years)
Company values
- Experiment always - Don’t let the fear of failure hold you back from doing incredible, original work. We don’t expect perfection on the first swing, just the willingness to keep going until we get it right. It takes grit, a lot of experimentation, and failing fast to optimize learnings
- Do less, deliver more - We focus on doing the right things, not all things. Focus on work that creates an outsized impact for our customers and team. We practice ruthless prioritization and intentionally make trade-offs that best serve our customers and mission
- We are givers - We put our customers and our team ahead of our personal ambitions. We intentionally give without condition in the spirit of advancing our mission. We won’t succeed with a “gimme” culture, but we will win as a team of endless baton-passers who support each other until the race is won
- Be ALL in - We make outsized bets to earn outsized returns for our customers, fellow colleagues, investors and stakeholders. If something critical is broken, we work relentlessly to not only fix it but solve the core issue using first-principles thinking. We obsess everyday to advance the mission and plan on building a durable, resilient 100+ year old company
- Expect to WIN - Winning is the outcome of compounding wins every moment, day, month and year. We are disciplined executors that strive to achieve mastery in everything we do. We win with grace and help elevate everyone around us. We are market makers and leaders
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Articles
Leadership
Alex Zekoff
(CEO)Co-founder and CEO of Like Wallet from 2017 to 2018. Experience as Lead Process Automation Engineer for Deloitte Consulting.
Dan Parsons
(CPO)Experience as CEO of ORA Interactive. Co-founder and CEO of DRYV from 2014 to 2018.
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