Charlie Health

Personalized mental health treatment for teens, young adults & families in crisis.

Lead Platform Engineer, Data

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

New York

Posted

8 days ago

Salary

$175K - $255K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsPostgre SQLPythonSQLType ScriptVault

Job Description

• Define, implement, and evolve data models and schemas in Postgres to support product and analytical use cases. • Develop and maintain our data access standards and patterns in our core backend systems with Python and Typescript. • Lead the definition, design, and phased migration to improved data models for core business concepts. • Work alongside product engineering teams to deliver features with correct and well-modeled data at the source. • Measure and improve data quality, correctness, stability, and usability improvements across our transactional systems. • Provide options around key initiatives and break down work into visible and achievable milestones, delivering incremental value. • Mentor and train other engineers throughout the organization and seek to continually improve our architecture and data modeling standards and engineering processes. • Improve data usability, trust, and developer productivity by building shared tooling, patterns, and documentation that make it easy for teams to produce and consume high-quality data. • Maintain and improve our transactional database infrastructure running in AWS. • Review SQL and data access code for our production systems. • Partner with engineers across the organization to ensure database migrations are executed correctly and safely. • Profile, analyze, and tune slow or inefficient queries in Postgres. • Leverage AI-powered tooling to enhance the software development lifecycle. • Drive security, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost-efficiency improvements across our deployed services. • Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly.

Job Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in a role focused on Backend or Data Platform Engineering.
  • 3+ years of experience writing production-level SQL and backend code.
  • Recent expertise with Python as a primary programming language.
  • Experience with data modeling concepts and best practices (e.g., dimensional modeling, data vault, or similar).
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Datadog and Cloudwatch.
  • Proven track record of breaking down large problems and delivering incremental value to meet deadlines while providing options for long-term improvements.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled developer productivity tooling.
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Stock options
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements

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