Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer | AI/Healthcare | $180K-$240K
Jersey City, NJ | Hybrid | Full-Time
We're working with a fast-growing technology company in the AI and healthcare space that's looking to add a Senior Data Engineer to its growing engineering team.
This is a hands-on role focused on building and scaling production data infrastructure that supports high-volume applications, analytics, and machine learning systems. You'll own critical pipelines from ingestion through transformation and storage while working closely with backend and ML engineers.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-throughput data pipelines
- Build integrations with external systems using APIs, webhooks, and change data capture (CDC)
- Transform, validate, and normalize complex datasets for production and analytical use
- Design and optimize schemas across Snowflake and MySQL
- Build data infrastructure supporting real-time applications and downstream ML workloads
- Deploy and operate production data pipelines and services in AWS
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and data-quality checks
- Improve pipeline reliability, scalability, and performance
- Build internal tooling around data ingestion, validation, and monitoring
- Partner closely with backend and ML engineers
- Ensure appropriate security and compliance practices for sensitive data
What You Need
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Backend Engineering
- Strong Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and MySQL
- Experience designing and building production data pipelines
- Production experience with AWS
- Experience with APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with CDC or high-volume database ingestion
- Strong understanding of schema design and database performance optimization
- Experience working with sensitive or regulated data
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Ability to work onsite in Jersey City, NJ at least 3 days per week
Nice to Have
- Experience building data infrastructure for machine learning or AI systems
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry
- Experience working in a startup or high-growth engineering environment
Compensation & Benefits
$180,000-$240,000 base salary + equity
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO
- Commuter stipend
Benefits
- For this position, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa. This job was first posted by CyberCoders on 08/20/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
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Salary
$180000 - $240000 USD per year