Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

About the Position

Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

Headway is on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by building a new system that everyone can access. We've automated the administrative nightmare of insurance, and now we're evolving our platform to include the best tools for therapists and patients. We're looking for a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer to architect, lead, and evolve the foundational systems that power our entire data organization.

Location

• New York, NY
• San Francisco, CA
• Seattle, WA

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

All Cost Centers, Research & Development, Engineering & Technology, Data

Compensation

• $212K – $265K • Offers Equity

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

Responsibilities

• Architect, lead, and evolve the foundational systems that power our entire data organization.
• Serve as a technical anchor across our Data Analytics & Engineering, Product Engineering, and Machine Learning teams.
• Drive technical strategy and cross-functional alignment.
• Build and maintain full-stack data platforms, including data warehousing, ingestion pipelines, orchestration, monitoring, and alerting.
• Design and operate cloud infrastructure at scale using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years as a Data Platform Engineer, Software/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in data, or Data Engineer in a high-code, high-scale environment.
• Track record of driving technical strategy and cross-functional alignment.
• Deep expertise in building full-stack data platforms.
• Architectural fluency in warehouse design patterns, performance tuning, cost management, and permissions strategies on MPP analytics databases (Snowflake strongly preferred; Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift also relevant).
• Proficiency in designing and operating cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS preferred) using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK).
• Strong Python engineering skills; solid SQL foundations; comfort with distributed systems.
• Experience maintaining and scaling pipeline orchestration infrastructure (Airflow/Astronomer preferred).
• Mentorship track record growing junior and mid-level engineers.

Nice to Have

• Agentic Data Engineering (automating data infrastructure tasks, auditing permissions, optimized CI).
• APM and observability tooling (DataDog, New Relic) and data quality/observability frameworks.
• ETL/ELT best practices at scale.
• Data security and compliance in regulated environments, especially PHI.
• Greenfield platform development in a high-growth startup.
• Docker, GitHub Actions, dbt, Spark.
• Build vs. buy decision-making and vendor evaluation.

We Offer

• Competitive base salary range: $212,000 - $265,000.
• Equity compensation.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• HSA / FSA.
• 401K.
• Work-from-Home Stipend.
• Therapy Reimbursement.
• 16-week parental leave for eligible employees.
• Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership.
• 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st.
• Flexible PTO.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Training and professional development.

About the Company

Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.

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