✦ Luna Orbit — Data & Analytics

Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform

at Vida Health

📍 Remote, US Remote 💰 $165K – $175K USD / year Posted March 03, 2026
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Position Details

Salary $165K – $175K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 7+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree
Category Data & Analytics

About this role

Lead data engineer responsible for ensuring the reliability and integrity of Vida Health's data platform, building observability, and maintaining data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own data pipeline reliability
  • Build observability foundations
  • Harden data ingestion
  • Enforce schema contracts
  • Lead incident retrospectives

Technical Overview

Focus on data pipelines, data modeling, schema validation, observability, using SQL, Python, and dbt to support healthcare data needs.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior data engineer with over 7 years of experience managing production data pipelines, strong expertise in SQL and Python, and deep knowledge of data governance and observability practices.

Must-Have Skills

7+ years in data engineeringDeep dbt experienceStrong SQL and data modeling instinctsPython fluencyOwnership of production pipelines

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with data governanceIncident retrospectivesData platform reliability

Tools & Platforms

dbtSQLPythonCI/CD tools

Required Skills

SQLPythondbtData pipelinesData modelingData quality validationSchema enforcementObservabilityMonitoringCI/CD

Hard Skills

SQLStructured Query LanguagePythonPython fluencydbtData Build ToolData pipelinesData modelingData quality validationSchema enforcementObservabilityMonitoringAlertingCI/CD

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringCode reviewProblem-solvingCommunication

Industry & Role

Industry Healthcare IT, SaaS
Job Function Data platform reliability and pipeline management

Keywords for Your Resume

Data EngineerData pipelinesSQLPythondbtData modelingData quality validationSchema enforcementObservabilityMonitoringAlertingCI/CDData governanceData reliabilityData pipelines reliabilityData platform

Deal Breakers

Less than 7 years in data engineering, Lack of experience with data pipelines or dbt, No Python experience, No experience with data quality validation

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