Senior Data Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

About Gather Health

Gather Health is a Series B healthcare company reimagining primary care for older adults. Backed by Khosla Maverick and HC9 weve raised over $50M to build a new model of socially supported care addressing both medical and social determinants of health.

The Role

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer (Platform Infrastructure) to build and manage the cloud infrastructure that powers Gathers next-generation data platform. Youll own our Google Cloud (GCP) environment ensuring its resilient secure and cost-efficient. This role is foundational: you will create the backbone that enables ingestion orchestration and modeling across our entire stack.

Youll collaborate closely with the Lead Data Engineer on architectural design and the Pipelines Engineer on operational enablement together forming the core data platform team.

What Youll Do

• Architect & Build Cloud Infrastructure: Design deploy and own Gathers data platform infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Implement & Manage Security: Own the platforms security posture implementing IAM roles VPCs encryption and monitoring for full HIPAA compliance.
• Enable Observability: Build monitoring logging and alerting across all platform services (Stackdriver Grafana etc.) to ensure reliability.
• Establish CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows for dbt Dagster and Cloud Run services using tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Manage Core Ingestion Services: Deploy and operate BigQuery Data Transfer (AthenaOne Snowflake Share) and Cloud Run webhook services for real-time data ingestion.
• Optimize Performance & Cost: Monitor and tune BigQuery performance (slots clustering partitioning) for efficiency.
• Collaborate Closely: Work with the Lead Engineer to align infra design with data architecture and support the Pipelines Engineer to ensure ingestion readiness.
  
  

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• 58 years of hands-on experience in DevOps SRE or data platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in GCP (BigQuery GCS IAM Cloud Run networking) and Terraform.
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with healthcare or other regulated (HIPAA SOC2) environments is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with dbt Dagster and modern data pipelines preferred.
  

Why Join Gather Health

• Build the data infrastructure foundation for a mission-driven healthcare company.
• Work with modern tools (GCP Terraform Dagster dbt) in a greenfield environment.
• Join a remote-first global team with high autonomy and ownership.
• Competitive salary.