Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform)

Welcome to Brightline! We are searching for a Senior Data Engineer with deep, handson dbt platform expertise and a proven track record of building and scaling modern data infrastructure in fastpaced, highgrowth startup environments. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, reporting, and decisionmaking across the organization. As part of the Data team, you’ll collaborate closely with data analysts and business stakeholders to collect requirements and build trusted data models. You’ll also work with data and engineering leaders to implement efficiencies that deliver data fast and reliably, while minimizing consumption costs.

Responsibilities:

Data Platform Ownership

• Own and maintain Brightline’s modern data platform, ensuring data integrity, scalability, and security across all systems.

• Monitor and improve the performance of our Snowflake data warehouse, Stitch ingestion layer, dbt transformation layer, and Tableau analytics layer.

• Build data pipelines APIs to connect across data systems and enable new business capabilities.

• Implement best practices in data engineering, including CICD workflows, data testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of best engineering practices with the rest of the data team.

• Reduce unneeded complexity and implement solutions to minimize snowflake storage and consumption costs.

• Unlock new data platform capabilities, and enable more powerful analytics across the business.

• Advanced Data Modeling and Reporting

  • Design and implement scalable dbt models and ELT pipelines that serve analytics, reporting, and potential AIML use cases.

  • Partner with analysts and stakeholders to define and deliver trusted, businessready data sets.

  • Implement best data materialization strategies that are fast and costeffective.

  • Design Tableau dashboards, including for administrative management of the data platform.

  • CrossFunctional Collaboration

    • Collaborate across technical and nontechnical teams to deliver highimpact data solutions.

    • Translate business questions into engineering requirements and ensure data availability aligns with strategic needs.

    • Requirements:

      • Expertlevel proficiency in SQL and data warehousing using Snowflake.

      • Deep experience with dbt for data modeling, testing, and documentation.

      • Experience in a startup setting

      • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar role, with a strong track record of building and maintaining modern data infrastructure.

      • Experience supporting analytics across multiple business departments.

      • • Data platform expert, knowledgeable of data engineering and security considerations.

        • Deep experience with Tableau Server, ideally as an administrator.

        • Deep experience with version control (Github) and CICD practices.

        • Some experience with Python and APIs.

        • • Ability to design efficient data systems that meet realworld business needs.

          • Comfortable working in ambiguous or evolving business contexts and providing data clarity.

          • • Strong ability to communicate with both technical and business audiences.

            • Skilled at breaking down complex systems and communicating architecture, tradeoffs, and outcomes.

            • • Commitment to improving behavioral health care and supporting families in accessing affordable, highquality care.

              • Nice to Have:

                • Experience with tools such as Segment, Amplitude, or Iterable

                • Marketing analytics and technology experience

                • An interest in frontend data analytics and dashboard development in Tableau

                • Familiarity with AIML engineering practices

                • We offer several benefits, perks, and stipends:

                  • Medical, Dental, Vision, LongTerm Disability, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and 401k

                  • 12 Company Holidays + Floating Holidays, Holiday Shutdown, Flexible Time Off, Parental Leave

                  • Health and Wellness Stipend, Home Office Reimbursement and Professional Development Reimbursement

                  • Stock Options

                  • At Brightline we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, competitive, geobased compensation that is performance and potential based. Our strategy is based on robust market research, including external advisory specializing in national compensation, and thoughtful input from every level of our organization. It is a combination of a cash salary, equity, benefits, wellbeing, and opportunity. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual base salary range for applicants is $140,000$190,000.

                    Our Commitment to Building a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workforce

                    At Brightline, we believe that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging are essential to the foundation upon which our mission is built. We are committed to:

                    • building a future where all families can access inclusive, highquality care

                    • creating an environment that encourages our employees to show up authentically, reach their highest potential, and have an equal opportunity to thrive

                    • systematically evaluating and improving our inherent beliefs, observed behaviors, structures, and systems

                    • ensuring that every employee, candidate, client, and family we serve is valued and respected

                    • About Brightline

                      Brightline is a therapy and psychiatry practice that delivers expert pediatric, teen, and parental mental health care to families and kids up to age 18. Brightline’s virtual and inperson outpatient services include diagnostic evaluation, therapy, psychiatry services (e.g. medication management), and psychological testing (to assess learning differences, school readiness, executive functioning difficulties [e.g. ADHD], and autism). In addition to Brightline’s generalized support, we offer focused programs including those that support anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders, ADHD, and disruptive behaviors. Founded in 2019, Brightline has delivered care to tens of thousands of families with industryleading results. We’ve been nationally recognized for clinical excellence and innovation for several years — recent awards include the Fast Company 50 Most Innovative Companies (2022) and Behavioral Health Business Companies to Watch Award (2024). Brightline is based in Palo Alto and is backed by investors including Boston Children’s Hospital, Northwell Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Google Ventures, KKR, and Oak HCFT.