Cedar is the AI-powered healthcare financial experience platform, built for the rising cost and complexity of healthcare payments. We help millions of people every year understand and resolve their medical bills with clarity and compassion, while helping healthcare organizations operate more efficiently. We’re combining AI, smart design, and empathy to fix one of healthcare’s most urgent crises.
Principal Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$246.5K - $311.8K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Data Engineer
Cedar
Role Description Cedar is at a pivotal moment in its technical evolution. We are evolving towards a brand-new, enterprise data platform and model, architected specifically to power the future of Cedar’s product offerings. As the Principal Data Architect, you will be the senior technical authority leading this transition, ensuring our new data foundation is clean, scalable, and cleanly separated from legacy debt. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who loves building production systems at scale and views AI as a massive accelerator for both personal and team productivity. What You’ll Do - Architect the Future-State Data Model & Storage: Lead the design and execution of a new, high-scale data model and storage architecture that lives outside our legacy monolith. - Ensure Metrics Reliability: Own the accuracy and reliability of Cedar’s core business metrics including collection rate, days in AR, and invoice balance tracking. - Power Intelligent Agents: Build the real-time data foundations that power Cedar’s AI-driven products. - Design for the Future: Design data models for new product lines that expand Cedar’s presence across the full revenue cycle. - Build Production Code: Write, ship, and maintain high-quality production code alongside our team of Data Engineers. - Guide and Mentor Engineers: Act as the technical role model for a team of Data Engineers. - Collaborate: Drive technical alignment across data engineering, platform, and product teams. - Steward Data Integrity: Define and enforce standards for Cedar's enterprise Data Dictionary and metadata strategy. Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in data engineering and backend systems at scale. - Experience leading large technical projects with a high accountability mentality. - Deep, hands-on proficiency with a wide range of data and engineering technologies and patterns. - Experience building "source of truth" systems and a passion for data accuracy. - Experience building data APIs, context systems, or feature stores that power downstream ML/AI applications. - Ability to spot over-engineering and under-engineering with equal confidence. - Clear communication skills to translate complex technical risks and trade-offs into business-relevant terms. - Avid learner and adopter of AI engineering tools. - Demonstrable understanding of healthcare concepts, including revenue cycle management (RCM), billing, and insurance adjudication (highly preferred). Requirements - Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Liquibase, Fivetran, Airflow, OpenMetadata, Kafka, SQL, Python, and real-time data processing. - Experience with building production-grade ELT/ETL pipelines and managing complex data transformations in cloud-first environments. - Experience with data validation and reconciliation, comparing pipeline output against source systems. Benefits - Salary/Hourly Rate Range: $246,500 - $311,750. - This role is equity eligible. - This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package. - Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick, and mental health days. - 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents. - Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work. - Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits. - Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation. - Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources.
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