Formation Bio
Senior Data Engineer
$186K–$232K
New York, NY +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Boston, MA
San Francisco, CA
116 Huntington Ave., Back Bay, Boston, MA, 02116
16 E 34th St., New York City, NY, 10016
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant data engineering experience.
About the job
Builds and operates reliable data systems and products that support clinical operations, drug evaluation, business development, analytics, machine learning, and AI consumers.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, transformations, shared data models, and downstream interfaces for clinical, operational, and vendor data.
- Establish data quality, testing, governance, observability, lineage, and safe access practices for production data products.
- Partner with Product Engineering and Data Science; support incidents, contribute to architecture reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience with pharmaceutical, biology, HIPPA, or other regulated data core to BioTech.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with deep data modeling and warehouse experience, especially Snowflake.
- Experience with Dagster or equivalent orchestration, and transformation tooling such as dbt or an equivalent approach.
- Experience with production data systems, complex source data, data quality, observability, lineage, and incident response.
Nice to have
- Experience working within and building validated computerized systems (CSV).
Pay
$185,500 - $232,000 (USD, total compensation range)
Tools
Python, SQL, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, Docker, GitHub, Terraform
AI focus
Build data products for AI Enabled Employees and Agents, and use AI tools including LLMs and agentic coding systems to accelerate engineering work while validating their output.
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