Carina is a not-for-profit technology organization founded in 2016 that operates an online home care “matching” system. The system matches consumers who need home care services with certified home care workers who are seeking work. Carina’s platform has successfully matched thousands of home care providers and home care seekers, resulting in over 1,000,000 hours of in-home care delivered. These connections help care seekers stay safely in their homes with a higher quality of life and promote better health outcomes.
Carina is entering a new growth phase, entering new geographic markets in-home care where qualified caregivers are matched with care seekers via a new Carina platform.
We are growing Carina with a focused team of experts in product design, cloud engineering, and product management, in partnership with marketing, customer service and go-to-market project management teams.
Position Details:
Location: Hybrid work Headquartered in Downtown Seattle, remote work possible from CA, IL, NY, RI, and WA
Work Schedule: Our typical business hours are 8:30-5:00 Monday-Friday.
Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Category: Part-Time, FLSA Non-Exempt, Regular
Physical Requirements: Must be able to perform tasks that may require prolonged periods of sitting or standing, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative Data Engineer to join our growing technology team on a part-time basis. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving data challenges, building efficient systems, and supporting a mission-driven organization.
As a Data Engineer at Carina, you will design, implement, and maintain the data infrastructure that powers our web-based marketplace connecting certified in-home care providers with Medicaid-eligible care seekers. You will work primarily with PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, helping ensure the quality, integrity, and security of data across applications, analytics, and partner integrations.
You will collaborate closely with software engineers, data analysts, and product teams to deliver reliable, well-structured data systems that enable meaningful insights and informed decision-making. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on how Carina improves access to care for families and caregivers across the state.
You Will:
Design and Development (DBE)
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data solutions and pipelines to support application and business needs.
- Develop and optimize data models and schemas within AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for transactional and analytical use cases.
- Create and maintain data architecture documentation including ERDs, data dictionaries, and source-to-target mappings across business units.
- Implement and maintain ETL and Reverse ETL processes for ingestion, transformation, and distribution of data across internal and external systems.
- Ensure data security and compliance for confidential PII and PHI in accordance with HIPAA, internal governance standards, and AWS security best practices.
- Support development teams with data access design through views, APIs, and performance-optimized SQL.
Administration (DBA)
- Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply indexing, partitioning, and query tuning strategies.
- Manage schema versioning, migrations, and change control in collaboration with application engineers.
- Maintain database reliability through regular backups, restores, and performance audits in AWS RDS.
- Implement and enforce data governance policies, access controls, and user permissions.
- Analyze query execution plans and develop indexing strategies for optimal read/write performance.
Data Management and Analytics
- Develop and maintain data validation and quality checks to ensure integrity across systems.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and BI integrations.
- Create and manage derived tables, materialized views, and summary datasets for analytics and partner reporting.
- Assist in data migrations, version upgrades, and integration efforts as Carina expands to new markets and data domains.
Collaboration
- Partner with software engineers, data analysts, and product managers to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Support internal stakeholders by providing SQL queries, datasets, and insights that inform business decisions.
- Collaborate with external partners and vendors to integrate, transform, and exchange data securely and reliably.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with AWS data services, PostgreSQL advancements, and emerging data engineering practices.
- Propose and implement process and tooling improvements that enhance data reliability and developer productivity.
- Contribute to building and documenting Carina’s data engineering standards, code review practices, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
- Champion a data-first culture by advocating for performance, security, and data quality throughout the organization.
You Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.
- 3–5 years of professional experience in data engineering, data infrastructure, or database development.
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining relational databases in PostgreSQL, preferably in AWS RDS.
- Proven experience building and managing data pipelines (ETL/ELT, Reverse ETL) using SQL, Python, or orchestration tools.
- Experience administering or tuning production databases (indexes, vacuum, query plans, schema versioning).
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred: RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) and general infrastructure concepts.
- Exposure to data warehousing, analytics, or BI tools (e.g., Metabase, dbt, Looker, or Tableau) a plus.
- Experience working in regulated or data-sensitive environments (e.g., healthcare, HIPAA) preferred.
- Strong SQL proficiency: Skilled in writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex queries in Postgres PL/pgSQL, including indexing and window functions.
- Programming: Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/Node.js, or another modern programming language used for data and application development.
- Data Modeling: Strong knowledge of relational schema design, normalization, and performance-driven modeling.
- Version Control & CI/CD: Familiarity with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD for database changes.
- Cloud Data Engineering: Understanding of AWS data services (RDS, S3, IAM) and secure networking principles.
- Collaboration: Ability to partner with engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to design and deliver reliable data solutions.
- Problem Solving & Ownership: Resourceful, detail-oriented, and comfortable diagnosing complex SQL or system issues in production.
- Communication: Clear, concise communicator who can translate technical details into business context for non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable working independently in a part-time capacity while collaborating asynchronously with engineering teams.
Salary Range:
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision coverage at varying levels, specifically 50%, 75%, or 100%, depending on the number of hours worked per quarter.
- 1 floating holiday, 2 personal days, end of year winter break; mid-year summer break,
- vacation, sick leave, and holiday pay are prorated/accrued, based upon hours worked.
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan and 401(k) options.
- Fitness, cell phone, internet and furniture stipends.
Carina provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
