Data Engineer

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) • White Plains, NY

3h • $150,000 - $190,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At VEG, we find a way to say YES — so you can build the data foundation that powers how the world's veterinary emergency company runs. As a Data Engineer on our Data Platform and Infrastructure team, you'll deliver trusted, scalable data products across our clinical, operational, and people data — the data behind every report, analysis, and AI use case at VEG. This is a deeply Snowflake-centric role: Snowflake is the core of our platform, and your day-to-day lives in Snowflake-native features, dbt transformation, and a fast-growing suite of AI/LLM capabilities. We're expanding our AI capabilities quickly, and you'll champion AI-assisted development as a core part of how you work. If you're as comfortable writing advanced SQL as you are thinking through architecture and partnering across teams, you'll grow here in ways you didn't expect. This role is hybrid, with presence at our White Plains, NY office 2–4 times per week.

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience building and maintaining production ELT pipelines (Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience)
• Deep, hands-on Snowflake expertise — this is the platform, not one tool among many; experience with Snowpipe, Openflow, Tasks, Cortex, and Streamlit strongly preferred
• Strong dbt and Data Vault proficiency, expert-level SQL using Snowflake-native functions, and Python proficiency (Fivetran for ELT a significant plus)
• Fluency with Git and GitHub on a collaborative engineering team — branching workflows, pull requests, and code review
• Regular use of AI-assisted development, plus familiarity with LLM-integrated data pipelines such as tagging, summarization, and embeddings
• Detail-oriented with high accuracy, strong intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative, working style

Nice To Haves

• Empathetic, instinctively taking a people-centric approach, whether supporting your colleagues or making an effort to understand different perspectives
• Have a sense of humility; acknowledging mistakes, sharing credit with others, and lifting up your team’s’ accomplishments
• Feel a strong sense of ownership over your work, taking responsibility for outcomes and staying committed to achieving long-term, impactful results
• Curious by nature; you ask insightful questions and continuously seek out opportunities to learn and grow your skills and knowledge

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the pipelines. Develop and maintain ELT pipelines that onboard new clinical, operational, and people data into VEG's Snowflake warehouse and dbt Data Vault, partnering with engineering and business stakeholders on requirements, reliability, and performance.
• Own Snowflake as the platform. Use Snowflake-native capabilities — Snowpipe, Openflow, Tasks, Cortex, Streamlit — to design scalable, performant solutions, applying best practices for query optimization, clustering, and resource management as our analytical workload grows.
• Model trusted, analysis-ready data. Curate clean datasets from raw data and write business logic in dbt so reporting, analytics, and AI use cases run on data people can rely on.
• Protect data quality. Monitor pipeline health, run detailed QA, and resolve data quality issues across every integrated source.
• Champion AI-assisted development. Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a standard part of your workflow, and build LLM-integrated pipelines including transcription summarization, automated tagging, and Cortex-powered workflows.
• Partner on what's next. Design data structures that support AI/ML use cases — feature engineering, embeddings, prompt-ready datasets — provide thought partnership on analytics, and contribute documentation that enables self-service across VEG.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Including $150,000 - $190,000 + bonus + benefits
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits that start on day one, and access to free therapy or counseling
• Paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary, and offering inclusive fertility and family-building care for all types of families
• Unlimited PTO to use for vacation or sick days—however you need it!
• Generous employee referral program, so our awesome people can bring in more awesome people.
• Casual office attire
• Ability to bring your fur baby to work
• Cool VEG swag
• Food in the fridge for when you’re hungry
• Free lunches twice a week!!
• Company laptop
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior