Founding Data Engineer

🐶 Our mission

Every pet should get the care they need, regardless of cost. Vet med prices are up 40% since 2020, and pet owners are stuck having to pick between their bank account and furry friend. At Snout, we aim to solve this by enabling clinics to offer pet wellness plans, that actually work.

🚀 The opportunity

Snout is one of the fastest growing wellness plan providers in the veterinary space, trusted by clinics across the U.S. We’re a small but mighty startup team. We’re looking for a remote, U.S. based Founding Data Engineer to build the data foundation the rest of the company will run on.

💻 The role

This is Snout’s first dedicated data hire, reporting directly to the CTO. You’re inheriting a real, working system — a Postgres operational database and a dbt-modeled analytics warehouse that already powers internal reporting and our LLM/AI tooling — but one that’s grown faster than anyone’s had time to organize. Your job is to turn it into a firm, documented, trustworthy foundation.

That means first understanding what data we actually have and where it lives, then making it coherent. We ingest hundreds of millions of rows from multiple veterinary practice-management systems (Cornerstone, AllyDVM, and others) alongside our own application data — today the same concept can live in several places with different shapes, and part of your early work is reconciling those lineages into definitions people can trust. From there you’ll own and extend the warehouse, harden the…