Drimva

Cityblock Health

Staff Data Engineer

$153K–$210K

USA · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026

Experience
6+ years.
Education
A CS degree or equivalent is nice to have, but not required.

About the job

Owns data pipelines and semantic layers that provide reliable, consistent data for care operations, analytics, and AI systems.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and reverse-ETL systems; improve data quality, freshness, and reliability.
  • Define and maintain semantic and metrics layers, including quality measurement for HEDIS and Stars.
  • Partner with Applied AI, BI, clinical, product, and platform teams to support trustworthy data use and self-serve analytics.

What they ask for

  • 6+ years of experience as an engineer building trustworthy systems.
  • Production-scale hands-on experience with dbt and SQL, including orchestration with Dagster, Airflow, or equivalent.
  • Experience owning production operational or reverse-ETL data systems and designing or maintaining a semantic or metrics layer.
  • Understanding of how LLMs consume structured context; fluent daily use of AI assistant tooling for engineering and data analytics, and demonstrated ability to scale AI adoption.

Nice to have

  • CS degree or equivalent; experience in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment.
  • Direct BigQuery experience; exposure to healthcare and clinical data, including ADT, HEDIS, CMS Stars; or experience building self-serve analytics for non-technical stakeholders.

Pay

$153,000.00 - $210,000.00 USD annual base salary

Tools

dbt, SQL, Dagster, Airflow, BigQuery, GCP, Claude, Cursor

AI focus

Make data and metrics reliable and well-constrained for AI agents, provide grounded context for Applied AI products, and use AI assistants in engineering and analytics work.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)