Meet Instinct 👋

Instinct Science is an animal health software company that helps the world’s leading veterinary practices deliver exceptional patient care, improve staff efficiency, and minimize team stress and burnout. Our easy-to-use EMR platform acts as the nerve center for veterinarians, veterinary nurses, and support staff alike, fostering seamless collaboration across teams. With our January 2024 acquisition of VetMedux, a company providing trusted education (Clinician’s Brief) and clinical decision support (Standards of Care™, Plumb's) for veterinarians, Instinct has strengthened our commitment to delivering the mission-critical tools veterinary practices need to care for their patients at the highest level and with the best outcomes.

We’re fueled by compassion! Our team, our customers, and their patients and animal owners matter immensely to us. We put the Customer First; Act with Grace, Not Teeth; Do the Right Things for the Right Reasons; and know that Excellence is in our DNA.

If these values speak to you, you might be a good fit for our Senior Data Engineer job.

A Sneak Peek of Your Role 🔭

This job, and the team at Instinct, is remote.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our core data infrastructure across Redshift, Airflow, and AWS. You will work closely with both Platform and Product Engineering teams to ensure our data systems are secure, reliable, and easy to work with.

This role is not just about owning the pipelines. You’ll help productize our internal data services, reduce internal friction, and turn our data architecture into a key market differentiator. You will mentor others, provide strategic input on data design, and help the company move faster through better data access, quality, and observability.

What You’ll Do 🐱💻

Empower Others through Reliable Data Systems
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using Airflow, dbt, and AWS-native services
- Manage and optimize Redshift clusters for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
- Own the architecture and lifecycle of our core data infrastructure
Lead with Purpose, Support with Context
- Serve as the subject matter expert on data engineering for both platform and product teams
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure data is modeled and accessible in ways that support reporting and feature development
- Help define data governance policies and enforce access controls across services
Trust Through Transparency and Resilience
- Build observability and alerting into pipelines to catch issues before they impact users
- Implement monitoring and reliability tools using Datadog or similar platforms
- Ensure systems are designed to meet compliance and audit standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.)
Champion Curiosity and Collaboration
- Partner cross-functionally to gather data requirements and translate them into scalable solutions
- Participate in sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives
- Mentor junior team members and promote data engineering best practices across the company

Who You Are 🐱💻

Must Haves:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering with a strong focus on AWS environments
- Proficiency in Redshift and data warehouse performance tuning
- Hands-on experience with Airflow or other orchestration frameworks
- Expertise in SQL, Python, and data modeling
- Experience with dbt and modular data modeling
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools
- Understanding of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001
- Exposure to event-driven or real-time data architectures
- Background in supporting embedded analytics or data services in SaaS products

How Instinct Will Care About YOU 🌞

We offer a supportive and caring work environment
We are transparent, open, honest, and empathic, both internally and externally
We pay our team well.
We offer medical, dental and vision benefits and 401K with match
We give our team owner-like flexibility over work and time-off, including time to innovate and Flow State Fridays
We offer a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work
We offer an incentive bonus plan that recognizes your contribution to Instinct’s success
We provide all-expense-paid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat

Base Compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000

Instinct is an equal opportunity employer committed to equality and providing a pleasant work environment free from harassment or discrimination in any form. All employees will be treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, ancestry, veteran, or disability status.

If you require accommodations throughout any part of the pre-employment process, please contact our People team at peopleteam@instinct.vet

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