Senior Data Engineer
At a glance
Senior Data Engineering role at HealthLeap. San Francisco · full-time · $175,000–$275,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and operate pipelines that take hospital data through ingestion, transformation and delivery
- Supply reliable data to machine-learning workflows, customer analytics and the APIs clinicians use
- Create data contracts and checks to flag missing records, schema changes and incorrect values
- Recover from backfills, late-arriving data and pipeline failures, and address the cause
- Work with integration, ML and product engineers to ensure data reaches each destination reliably
What you bring
- At least five years building production data systems, with strong Python and SQL skills
- You have owned pipelines that depend on messy external data that changes
- You can model data and make sound calls on correctness, monitoring and recovery
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who wants to work across ingestion, model inputs, analytics and product APIs, rather than own one part of the data stack. The job is based in San Francisco, with office work as the default and work-from-home flexibility when needed. Hospital launches can require weeks of sixty hours or more.
From the employer
About Healthleap
Every day, millions of hospitalized patients who need intervention are missed because clinicians simply can't see everything. HealthLeap is building the AI operating system that helps care teams identify these missed patients, enabling them to improve health outcomes and generate millions of dollars. HealthLeap is changing what is possible: closing gaps that traditional workflows and clinician capacity could never.
Over the past year, we've grown contracted revenue more than 13x, expanded rapidly across leading health systems, and now help care teams identify patients across millions of inpatient encounters.
We're ~25 people. >$32M raised. SF-based, hybrid-friendly. And, we're delivering results that are changing lives.
Senior Data Engineer
About the role
HealthLeap runs on data. We’re live at 40+ hospitals and plan to add another 100. You’ll build the core pipelines that move messy clinical data from hospital systems into model inputs, analytics, and the APIs behind what clinicians see.
You’ll make that data usable and reliable. When a feed arrives late, a field changes, or a number looks wrong, you’ll trace it through the system and fix the cause.
What you’ll do
Build and operate pipelines from hospital ingestion through transformation and delivery.
Produce trusted data for ML pipelines, customer analytics, and user-facing APIs.
Define data contracts and checks that catch missing records, schema changes, and incorrect values.
Handle backfills, late data, failures, and recovery.
Work with integration, ML, and product engineers to get data reliably where it needs to go.
What we’re looking for
5+ years building production data systems, with strong Python and SQL.
Experience owning pipelines that depend on messy, changing external data.
Strong data modeling and judgment about correctness, monitoring, and recovery.
The ability to trace a problem across systems and own the fix through production.
What will make you stand out
Experience building data pipelines for ML products.
Experience with clinical data, EHRs, HL7, or FHIR.
Early-stage experience building and operating core data systems.
This role is NOT for you if
You want to own one piece of the data stack. You’ll work across ingestion, model inputs, analytics, and product APIs.
You want predictable 9-to-5 hours. We protect deep rest, but a hospital go-live can mean a 60+ hour week.
Interview process
No LeetCode or puzzles. Use the tools you’d use on the job, including AI.
Intro call
Data pipeline design
Practical data exercise
Onsite with the team in San Francisco
We decide the same week as the onsite.
Compensation and benefits
$175,000–$275,000 base plus meaningful equity
100% covered healthcare premiums
Unlimited PTO with a 20-day minimum
4% 401(k) match
Laptop and home office budget
Location
San Francisco, in person. We work together in the office by default, with flexibility to work from home when needed. We judge output, not hours.
If you're passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world impact, join us in building healthcare's future.
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