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Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain through at-home EEG platforms and digital health diagnostics. The company serves life sciences partners in clinical development and operates a diagnostics business delivering reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders.
The Senior Data Engineer will join the Datastore team, which sits at the heart of Beacon's platform. The Datastore defines the foundational data model and serves as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies, supporting analytical tools, services, and applications used by scientists, clinicians, and partners.
This role emphasizes design and scaling of backend systems for data infrastructure, including event-driven pipelines, data modeling, and APIs that enable scientific and clinical data use. You will lead the design and integration of new services and components for data and event processing, contribute to scaling the Datastore's core infrastructure, and collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs that unlock new workflows in Beacon's expanding portfolio of clinical studies and digital health products.
Success in this role involves partnering with product managers and internal stakeholders to design new integrations and solutions for scaling the data platform; implementing features with attention to data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability; drafting RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases; and leveraging feedback to improve operational robustness and ease of use through documentation, tools, and dashboards.
Required qualifications include 5+ years of backend development experience with at least 2 years focused on data engineering, data platforms, or infrastructure for data-centric applications. Strong proficiency in SQL and production experience with PostgreSQL is essential. Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing tools such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis is required. Proficiency in a data-oriented programming language such as Julia, Python, or R is needed, with Julia experience being a strong plus. Beacon maintains robust asynchronous work practices to ensure a first-class remote experience, with optional in-person office hubs in Boston, New York, and Paris.
