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# Senior Staff Data Engineer at SmithRx

- **Company:** SmithRx
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $179k–$252k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smithrx/jobs/8785837002

## Job description

Who We Are:

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company.  Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.  With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

- Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
- Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
- Together: The success of SmithRx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team. Our shared values bind us together and make us one. When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise.

Job Summary:

On the Data Engineering team, we transform streams of data into insights that solve real-world Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) challenges. We empower our Data Analytics and Machine Learning teams to make drug pricing transparent and easy to understand. We deliver business impact by designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed systems to collect, aggregate, and govern pharmaceutical data. We leverage open-source tools like Airflow and DBT built on top of industry-leading data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), utilize LLMs to optimize workflows, and use Python heavily in our daily work.

What you will do:

Architecture & Technical Strategy

- Define Technical Vision: Define the long-term data engineering strategy guided by company-wide priorities and engineering best practices.
- Design Ecosystems: Create coherent designs across multiple pipelines and API boundaries. Reduce complex concepts to foundational components and simplify infrastructure to lower maintenance costs.
- Drive Engineering Excellence: Make high-impact technical choices—including "build vs. buy" and framework selections— based on sound reasoning. Review designs to preemptively identify and resolve technical risks.
- Improve Developer Efficiency: Implement solutions that measurably improve developer efficiency and establish engineering-wide quality and best practices.

Execution & Business Impact

- Deliver at Scale: Roll out major features and systems reliably, including appropriate monitoring, failure domain characterization, and success metric definitions.
- Align with Business Goals: Leverage a deep understanding of SmithRx’s business strategy to identify group-wide opportunities. Proactively refocus team efforts when projects are off-course or not moving the needle for the business.
- Manage Data Quality & Governance: Enforce data governance policies (PII/PHI protection, security, compliance) and implement data quality principles to raise the bar for the reliability of data shared internally and externally.

Leadership & Collaboration

- Influence Cross-Functionally: Influence the roadmaps of other SmithRx teams. Act thoughtfully and decisively in critical situations, seeking diverse perspectives but ultimately leading decision-making to move priorities forward.
- Mentor and Develop: Serve as a role model and coach for other engineers, taking into account their unique skills and providing constructive feedback to maximize their impact.
- Executive Communication: Develop focused messaging and effectively present technical strategies and business cases at the executive level.
- Champion Organizational Change: Break down silos, build deep cross-functional relationships, and create excitement to drive the adoption of new technologies or processes across the organization.

What you will bring to SmithRx:

- 8+ years of years of industrial experience in data engineering with an advanced degree or 12+ years with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. (Start-up and healthcare experience is highly desirable).
- Demonstrated mastery of data modeling concepts, database design principles, and data warehouse technologies (e.g., Snowflake) through production-grade implementations.
- Strong skills in PySpark, SQL, and Python are required. Experience in modern object-oriented or compiled languages such as C#/C++, Go, Java, or Scala is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with leading ETL tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, dbt, Looker, Superset).
- In-depth experience managing the entire data lifecycle, with direct responsibility for the development, implementation, and production release of complex data processing solutions utilizing distributed systems.
- A proven track record of making decisions optimized for the wider engineering organization rather than locally optimal outcomes, especially in environments with significant ambiguity.

What SmithRx Offers You:

- Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible Spending Benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Program
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Discretionary Paid Time Off
- 12 Paid Company Holidays
- Wellness Benefits
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
- Professional development and training opportunities

Zone A includes the following locations:

- San Francisco Bay Area - California
- Metro New York City - Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania

Zone A Pay Range $214,200—$252,000 USD

Zone B includes the following locations:

- California - outside of San Francisco Bay Area
- Metro Denver / Boulder - Colorado
- Metro District of Columbia - District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
- Metro Boston / Cambridge - Massachusetts and New Hampshire
- Metro Austin - Texas
- Metro Seattle - Washington

Zone B Pay Range $196,400—$231,000 USD

Zone C includes all other locations not listed above, including:

- Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Non metro Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia

Zone C Pay Range $178,500—$210,000 USD

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base Salary: The range listed above reflects our standard pay scale and actual pay will vary based on work location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Total Rewards: In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or equity. SmithRx offers a variety of benefits to help you live well, including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance and 401(k).

Individual offers are tailored to your geography, experience, skills, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details during the hiring process. In the meantime, feel free to explore our comprehensive benefits [here](https://benefitsguides.thinkccig.com/smithrx/2026candidates/).

## About SmithRx

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SmithRx is a transparent, pass-through pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) for self-insured employers, using modern technology to lower drug costs and improve member outcomes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A and Seed funding; most recent Series A in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jake Frenz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) – healthcare technology and services
- **Target customers**: Self-insured employers (B2B/Enterprise), also serves brokers and plan sponsors
- **Mission**: To reduce the cost and complexity of pharmacy benefits for America’s employers and patients, bringing transparency and fairness to a system built on opacity [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/our-story)

## Products & Services
- **SmithRx PBM Platform**: A fully transparent, pass-through pharmacy benefits administration service. Routes every claim to the lowest-cost drug, pharmacy, and price, while providing white-glove member support. Includes clinical formulary optimization, cost-saving programs, and real-time data analytics. (SaaS + Service)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$104.7M** across six rounds (Seed in 2017, Series A in 2018/2019/2021) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithrx)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund (led Series A in 2018); other undisclosed investors. Partners include best-of-breed healthcare solutions [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/our-story)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 422 employees as of mid-2026, with monthly headcount growth of +3.7% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithrx)
  - 84 active job postings; quarterly job postings up 180% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithrx)
  - Claims clients consistently save **20% or more** on total drug costs compared to legacy PBMs [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/)
  - Named to “Best Places to Work” (per LinkedIn snippet)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Radical transparency**: SmithRx operates with a pass-through model – all rebates and discounts are passed to the client, eliminating conflicts of interest that plague incumbent PBMs.
- **Independent ownership**: Not owned by an insurance company or pharmacy chain, so incentives are 100% aligned with employers and patients.
- **Modern technology**: Proprietary platform that continuously optimizes drug selection based on efficacy, safety, and total cost.
- **High net promoter scores**: Based on 2025 client survey results.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue disrupting the legacy PBM oligopoly by proving that a transparent, technology-driven model delivers superior savings and member experience.
- Expand client base among self-insured employers and grow partnerships with brokers and consultants.
- Scale engineering and data capabilities to further automate drug pricing and clinical decision support.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Guided by values of Courage, Integrity, and Together – a team that “runs toward complex problems” with high autonomy and grit [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote work options for Engineering, Marketing, and G&A roles; in-office hubs in San Francisco, Lehi (UT), and Plano (TX) [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/careers)
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision with low employee costs; gym memberships; Employee Assistance Program; pet pharmacy benefits; generous PTO; 12 company holidays including an annual “Anvil Day” [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/careers)
- **Career Growth**: Training and development support at every stage; named to “Best Places to Work”
- **Employee Rating**: 3.6/5 on LinkedIn (82 reviews) with highest marks for culture (3.8) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithrx)

## Sources
1. [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/) – company homepage
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithrx) – LinkedIn company profile
3. [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/our-story) – founder story and mission
4. [smithrx.com](https://smithrx.com/careers) – careers page
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/smithrx) – job listings and open roles

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