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[Remote] Principal Data Engineer

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-16

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Accompany Health is on a mission to give patients with complex needs the dignified, high-quality care they deserve. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will collaborate across the organization to build products that integrate healthcare services and drive change in the industry.


Responsibilities

  • Be a data champion and seek to empower others to leverage the data to its full potential
  • Understand our complex data ecosystem
  • Work with the product team and stakeholders to translate business requirements for data across the company into a technical roadmap and architecture for the platform
  • Act as the leading data domain expert and owns platform data architecture
  • Lead the technical design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and efficient data infrastructure, data-driven products, and software solutions for external and internal customers
  • Provide technical leadership to define overall data engineering best practices, standards, and architectural approaches and drive technical excellence. Identify design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture with high observability and robust operational characteristics
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL
  • Work with stakeholders, including the Executive, Product, Clinical, Data, and Design teams, to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
  • Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader

Skills

  • You are entrepreneurial and mission-driven and can present your ideas with clarity and confidence clarity and confidence
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
  • Experience building and optimizing ‘big data' data pipelines, architectures, and data sets. A definite plus with healthcare experience
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
  • A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
  • Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data' data stores
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
  • We are looking for a candidate with 7+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field
  • Experience with cloud-based data warehouse: Snowflake
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Golang, Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
  • Experience with big data tools: Spark, Kafka, etc
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools like Airflow

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits

Company Overview

  • Accompany Health provides comprehensive in-home care to patients who live in sometimes underserved regions. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://accompanyhealth.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Accompany Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 4 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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