Data Engineer

About Cylinder

Founded in 2021 and offered as an employer benefit, Cylinder (formerly Vivante Health) delivers personalized, clinician-backed care to those suffering from digestive issues through its virtual health platform. Cylinder’s tech-forward, human-first program connects members to the right level of support at the right time through an easy interface, bringing the healthcare ecosystem together to align around member needs. Cylinder’s dedicated care teams help members proactively address their gut health from every angle – decreasing costs, reducing absenteeism, and improving their quality of life, at scale. Cylinder’s vision is to create a world where people receive convenient, personalized, and affordable access to the quality digestive healthcare they need to improve their overall health.

Position Summary

We're looking for an experienced, solution-focused Data Engineer with demonstrated experience building and supporting ETL pipelines for analytics efforts. If you enjoy designing and implementing scalable, efficient data solutions while collaborating with other great engineers, please read on!

This role would help us integrate various external and internal data sources, creating automated pipelines and workflows for both internal and external stakeholders. Their work will be pivotal to enabling data analytics and data science efforts to assess the impact of our program on clinical outcomes, as well as personalize the program experience for our members. There will be close collaboration with our Data Science, Clinical Research and Client Success teams, who will be some of the main consumers of the claims data pipeline.

The ideal candidate is someone who can reason through the interactions of a distributed system and deliver solutions that emphasize simplicity, reliability and scalability.

Why is this a great opportunity for a data engineer?

• The problem domain and our approach to solving it is super compelling. We're bringing together data sources that have never been joined, building models of a GI patient that have never been built, and discovering new GI health insights that help real people to manage and support their real medical conditions.
• It's still early enough that there’s a lot of decisions and new discoveries to be made, so this is your chance to get in early and help shape our future.
  
  

Other things about our environment you should be aware of:

• We're still a small company, which means that everyone still wears a lot of hats and we need engineers who are comfortable with ambiguity and working across a wide variety of challenges. That said, our existing engineering team has built an extremely efficient working environment based on best-in-class hosted SaaS frameworks that greatly minimize the overhead in deploying and supporting software in production.
• We're all really passionate about improving clinical outcomes for our members and truly advancing the GI health space. Most of us also have personal (direct/family/friend) connections to GI health problems. Whatever it is that fuels you, we're on a mission to build something much larger than ourselves here and looking for another partner in driving that mission forward.
  
  

Responsibilities Include

• Expanding and supporting our capabilities to ingest, transform and organize medical, insurance ad microbiome datasets with other forms of healthcare and population health datasets
• Writing and implementing automated, scaleable pipelines to ingest and process data in a variety of formats using DBT and the Google Cloud ecosystem
• Working cross-team with stakeholders and end users to clearly identify requirements, generate timely iterable releases and proactively improve the end-user experience for both internal and external customers
• Help organize and automate existing data warehouse datasets and workflows
• Develop the kind of software and pipelines that you’d want to inherit from another developer (documentation, test coverage, logging, metrics, etc.)
• Collaborate with the rest of your engineering team on design, planning and code reviews
• Partner with product stakeholders on ideation, feedback and refinement of solutions that meet our business needs
• Keep learning
  
  

You'll Be a Good Fit Here If You Are

• A team player. You like collaborating closely with other engineers, often through pair programming, design & code reviews
• Empathetic to our members’ GI health conditions and are driven to improve their outcomes
• Security oriented. We take the stewardship of our customer's healthcare data seriously, and take no shortcuts to protect it
• Comfortable with a distributed workforce. We interact with each other via video chat, Slack and PR comments
• A self motivated, creative problem solver
• At least partially obsessed with automating everything
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience building and supporting data pipelines on cloud infrastructure
• Proficiency with SQL, Python and some form of ELT/ETL solutions
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) frameworks, including, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer
• Experience with DBT, or similar data transformation frameworks
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities with colleagues, business partners, and vendors alike
• Bonus:
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience working with medical, healthcare and/or population health data, including expertise in medical and pharmacy claims data (e.g., medical coding systems, nuances specific to interpreting claims data)
• Experience working in a HIPAA regulated environment (or other regulated industry) and supporting data security and privacy controls
  

Cylinder Health is an equal opportunity employer.

We believe safe spaces where everyone can be their authentic selves is the key to a successful team so we welcome and embrace all identities, cultures, and backgrounds.