Staff Data Engineer, Citizen Health
$200-230k
+ Eligible for stock options
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Health data access & sharing platform
Job no longer available
Health data access & sharing platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$200-230k
+ Eligible for stock options
2-3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the lives of 400+ million people navigating rate and complex conditions.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about data-driven decisions, you thrive in fast-paced environments and influence key technical choices
- You are open to adapting strong opinions and focused on delivering solutions quickly
- We're looking for a dynamic player-coach who can excel as a senior contributor and transition into a leadership role as the data team grows
- 7+ years of experience as a data engineer with a proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing large-scale data systems
- Deep expertise in data modeling, data architecture and modern data warehousing solutions (e.g. Clickhouse, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery)
- Extensive experience with data pipeline tools and frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka, and ETL technologies
- Strong proficiency in SQL and expertise in programming languages such as Python, R
Desirable
- Proven ability to optimize data systems for performance and cost-efficiency, particularly for large-scale clinical and business datasets
- Strong skills in data visualization tools and BI platforms (e.g., Superset, Tableau, Power BI)
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and their associated data services
- Experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Proven experience in interviewing engineering candidates, mentoring team members, and fostering professional growth within a technology team
- Experience with real-time and batch processing of large scale data
- Experience with machine learning data pipelines and integration
- Knowledge of data security and privacy regulations and best practices a plus
- Passion for improving data systems and solving complex data challenges, particularly within the healthcare sector
What the job involves
- The Staff Data Engineer will lead the design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of data infrastructure supporting AI-powered solutions and insights for researchers, patients, and stakeholders
- You'll work closely with clinicians, data scientists, engineers, and business teams to build scalable data pipelines, optimize storage and retrieval, and ensure data quality and accessibility
- Design and implement scalable and reliable data infrastructure for clinical, business, and operational needs, including real-time/batch pipelines and warehousing solutions
- Optimize data systems for high-performance querying and analysis and develop data infrastructure supporting AI solutions in clinical settings
- Stay current with emerging data technologies and methodologies, and apply them strategically to ensure data quality, integrity, and accessibility
- Build and mentor a high-performing data engineering team, fostering innovation and continuous learning
- Champion a data-centric approach throughout the organization, aligning data strategies with business objectives
Our take
Citizen Health is an AI-powered platform that gives individuals with rare and complex diseases access to their health data. By centralizing records like clinical data, genetic information and patient-reported outcomes, it helps patients make informed decisions, share insights with caregivers and connect with others facing similar conditions.
The platform also accelerates medical research by providing researchers with critical patient data, speeding up drug development and clinical trials. By empowering patients to share their experiences, Citizen Health helps advance personalized care and faster therapies for rare diseases.
Only founded in 2023, the company is already making waves, with financial backing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). With CZI's support, Citizen Health aims to expand its platform, innovate further and accelerate research to improve the overall treatment of rare diseases.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Company off-sites
- Work-from-anywhere 30 days of the year
- Unlimited PTO
- Potential for equity
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Company values
- Work for the patients: Not for the systems that serve them
- Fearlessly build the future with urgency: Don't incrementally improve the status quo
- The future is built by the doers: Good ideas alone will not change the world
- Speed is of the essence: But we need robust technology to scale and succeed
- Life is hard enough: Let's never make it any harder for our community
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Farid Vij
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the President and General Manager of Patient Network and Data at Invitae. Prior to that, they co-founded Ciitizen where they served as the Chief Operating Officer.
Nasha Fitter
(Co-Founder & CBO)Co-founder and CEO at FOXG1Research. Previously VP at Invitae and Ciitizen. Also was founder and CEO of Schoolie (acquired by GreatSchools) and spent 6 years at Microsoft in a number of education related roles.
Daniel Wang
(CTO)Previously the Director of AI, ML and Pricing Engineering at Uber Freight. They also worked at Amazon as an Alexa Speech Recognition Model Engineer and co-founded Factory Method where they served as the CEO.
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