Assoc Data Engineer

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, supporting oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our goal in R&D operations data science is to support R&D activities at Natera through data analytics and development of tools to optimize workflows and processes. As an associate data engineer on the team, you will work closely with data engineers to assist in development, maintenance, and optimization of data solutions to support our business needs.

Responsibilities

• Assist in Data Pipeline Development: Help design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines to support data ingestions, transformation, and analysis from various sources

• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work with business and technical teams to understand their data needs and assist in translating these requirements into technical solutions. 

• Maintain Data Infrastructure: Monitor and maintain data systems and pipelines. You will assist in identifying issues, performing troubleshooting, and making recommendations to improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of the data infrastructure.

• Data Access and Visualization: Develop tools and processes that enable easy access to data for business stakeholders.

• Learn and Apply Emerging Technologies: Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

• Documentation and Testing: Document data pipelines, workflows, and code for transparency and future maintenance. You will also write unit tests to ensure quality and accuracy of data processing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

• Exposure to data engineering concepts, cloud platforms, and/or software development

• Expertise in Python and SQL

• Experience in AWS services such as S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue

• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Redshift

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment

• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels

• Eagerness to learn new tools and technologies and take on new challenges

Nice to have:

• 1+ years of experience in data engineering, or a related field

• Experience working in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.

• Experience working with data modeling and transformation processes using tools like dbt

• Familiarity with RESTful API development

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.San Carlos, CA $69,900—$87,350 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