Senior Data Engineer

Title: Senior Data and ML Engineer

Location: Austin, TX, or San Carlos, CA, Or Remote(US)

Company Overview: Natera is dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Their cell-free DNA tests help protect health and inform more personalized decisions about care.

Position Summary: The Senior Data Engineer plays a crucial role in designing and developing data engineering solutions, ensuring businesses have access to the data they need for informed decision-making.

Key responsibilities include:

• Understanding business requirements, processes, and data sources.

• Collaborating with business analysts to translate data requirements into logical data models.

• Designing highly scalable ETL processes and data transformations.

• Developing SQL views, procedures, and functions.

• Serving as a subject matter expert in Structured Query Language (SQL).

• Analyzing complex data with large volumes.

• Ensuring the integrity and quality of data stored in data warehouses and data marts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of overall software development experience, preferably building complex data solutions.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with SQL platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Athena, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle) or similar.

• Experience with data and data warehouse applications (Star/Snowflake Schema, OLAP, Data Vault modeling, etc.).

• Proficiency in Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) using tools like Talend or similar.

• Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlik Sense, Tableau, or similar.

• Expertise in AI, ML, and LLM:

  • Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and libraries (e.g., scikit-learn).

  • Experience implementing AI/ML models for data processing, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection.

  • Understanding of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and applications.

  • Exposure to large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 or BERT.

  • Ability to collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines into data workflows.

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.Remote USA$93,800—$117,200 USD

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page