Senior Data Engineer
Gravie · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$134k – $180k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Data Engineer
- Fully remote (US)
- Kafka + Flink
- AWS + CDK
- Healthcare domain
Join Gravie to engineer a streaming data platform that transforms operational data into canonical models for applications and agentic workloads. You will own the platform in production, ensuring it meets strict latency and throughput SLOs while handling sensitive health information securely.
What you'll do
- Own full lifecycle of streaming platform including architecture and production ops
- Manage latency and throughput SLOs with monitoring via Datadog
- Handle incident recovery such as replays, backfills, and checkpoint failures
- Build pipelines ingesting CDC events into contract-validated canonical forms
- Transform data in Flink with stateful processing and event-time handling
- Implement secure data access controls for PHI in partnership with Security
- Provision infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and manage CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with upstream producers and downstream consumers on data contracts
What you'll need
- 6+ years building and operating production data systems with on-call experience
- Deep production experience with Apache Kafka including MSK and Connect
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Flink or similar stateful processors
- Proficiency in Java or another JVM language for stream processing
- AWS-native engineering experience with services like MSK, EMR, Glue, and S3
- Infrastructure-as-code skills using AWS CDK or Terraform
- Ability to debug distributed pipelines using observability tools like CloudWatch
- Proficient in SQL, Python, and building REST APIs
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic data patterns
- Knowledge of CDC tools like Debezium and open table formats like Iceberg
- Familiarity with schema registries, Avro/Protobuf, and data governance
- Degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field
- Comfortable working in Unix-based environments (Mac/Linux)
Nice to have
- Health insurance domain knowledge including HIPAA and PHI compliance
- Experience serving data to AI and agentic consumers
- Familiarity with governance catalogs like Atlan, Alation, or Collibra
- Previous experience in venture-backed start-up companies
Stack
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Flink
- AWS
- AWS CDK
- Datadog
- Python
- SQL
- Java
- Debezium
- Iceberg
- Delta Lake
How you'll work
- 100% remote work policy
- Unix-based OS environment (Mac or Linux)
What you get
- Standard health and wellness benefits
- Alternative medicine coverage
- Flexible paid time off
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- 401k program
- Transportation perks
- Education reimbursement
- 2 days paid paw-ternity leave