Staff Data Engineer
Job Description
Storm3 is hiring a Staff Data Engineer to help build PHI and healthcare data pipelines in a remote-first setup in San Francisco. You will work alongside a highly technical engineering team with direct partnership with the CTO and strong ownership over production systems. The role comes with a $185,000 base plus quarterly bonus and equity opportunity.
What you’ll bring
- Experience working with patient-level healthcare data under HIPAA regulations
- Strong Python expertise building production-grade data systems
- Advanced SQL skills, including query optimization and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect (with Dagster strongly preferred)
- Experience building and supporting ingestion pipelines, validation frameworks, audit processes, and failure recovery workflows
- Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes
- A strong observability and troubleshooting mindset with the ability to own business-critical systems
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools while maintaining full ownership of technical decisions and output quality
What you’ll own
- Design, develop, and operate PHI data pipelines built in Python using Ibis, DuckDB, Pandas, Dagster, and Kubernetes
- Lead patient identity resolution and record-linkage workflows to align healthcare data accurately
- Own the data-ingestion lifecycle from file intake through validation, enrichment, masking, audit, and delivery
- Automate data operations and recovery processes with enterprise-grade observability, governance, and retry mechanisms
- Act as the escalation point for critical production issues impacting client-facing healthcare data pipelines
- Partner closely with the CTO on key engineering decisions within the organization’s lakehouse architecture
Tools you’ll work with
Python, Ibis, DuckDB, Pandas, Dagster, Kubernetes, SQL, Airflow, Prefect
Benefits
- $185k base + quarterly bonus + equity opportunity
- Remote-first environment working alongside a highly technical engineering team
- Direct partnership with the CTO and high ownership over critical systems