Staff Data Engineer
Hybrid (New York City)$200k - $240kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Staff Data Engineer to own the data platform layer at Verse, shaping data strategy and building scalable infrastructure for product and operational systems.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the Snowflake platform end-to-end, including the ongoing evolution of the environment as usage scales.
- Own source pipeline reliability and expansion, evaluating existing connections for reliability, freshness SLAs, edge case handling, and schema drift resilience, while building net-new integrations.
- Ensure data accuracy, quality, and compliance through governance, observability, and monitoring best practices.
- Own pipeline incident response with speed and clear communication, identifying root causes that prevent recurrence rather than just restoring service.
- Improve data architecture and storage solutions to enhance performance, reduce costs, and optimize batch workflows as usage and data volume scale.
- Operate as the technical authority on data infrastructure decisions, setting standards and guiding architectural choices that hold up as the team and the platform scale.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or software engineering, with experience owning production data infrastructure end-to-end.
- Deep Snowflake expertise, including warehouse configuration, RBAC and role hierarchy design, connector management, cost optimization, and performance tuning at the compute layer.
- Expert SQL, dbt, and Python skills, with experience building complex, high-performance queries and production-grade pipeline code.
- Proven experience building and maintaining source pipelines, including CDC via logical replication, Fivetran or Airbyte connector management, custom API ingestion, orchestration, and S3-based ingestion patterns.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, governance, privacy, and observability best practices.
- AWS infrastructure fluency, including RDS parameter groups, S3 bucket policies, IAM role configuration, VPC networking, and security groups.
- Preferred: Experience working across application systems and data systems, with an understanding of how they interact.
- Preferred: Experience with data platform migrations, specifically running legacy and new environments in parallel.
- Preferred: Familiarity with healthcare or other regulated data (HIPAA compliance).
- Preferred: Experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Preferred: Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including query optimization, database telemetry / monitoring / maintenance, index design, and RDS-specific configuration and tuning.
- Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers and guiding cross-functional architectural decisions.
Skills
Required:SnowflakeSQLdbtPythonCDC / data integrationAWSData governance and observability
Nice to have:PostgreSQLInfrastructure as code (Terraform)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Opportunities for rapid career advancement in a growing company.
- 100% premium coverage for health insurance.
- 401(k) with no matching at this time.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Verse Medical
Software platform for in-home healthcare
As healthcare costs have increased, the patient's home has become incredibly important as a site of care. Yet, patients recovering at home are highly underserved. Patients can only get better at home if they receive the high-quality care that they need reliably. The existing in-home care process involves patchwork of different vendors, all connected through faxes by nurses. We're building modern, robust software that solves this challenge and brings this market online.
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