Sr. Software Engineer, Data Platform
$135k - $160k • Remote • United States
Posted 3d ago
About the job
Cohere Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Platform team. This remote-first role involves designing and delivering large-scale, reliable, and governed data pipelines that power analytics, operations, and clinical intelligence. The ideal candidate will thrive on solving complex data challenges, mentoring others, and improving engineering standards while contributing to platform growth. You will operate across the end-to-end data lifecycle, ensuring data products are performant, compliant, and trustworthy by partnering closely with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Mentor junior engineers and raise team-wide engineering standards.
- Implement and enforce data quality, schema validation, and observability practices.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and tool evaluation.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in Python and SQL.
- Optimize and monitor production workflows using tools like Airflow, dbt, Athena, EMR, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business needs.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support critical platform jobs.
- Champion a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software development with a focus on data infrastructure.
- Demonstrated success designing and delivering large-scale, reliable, and governed data infrastructure projects.
- Track record of building and maintaining production-grade systems using APIs.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience applying software engineering rigor to data workflows.
- Hands-on experience with modern data tools such as Airflow, dbt, AWS (EMR, Athena, S3), Iceberg, Parquet, and Kafka.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team-wide engineering standards.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Experience with healthcare data (claims, eligibility, clinical, EHR) is strongly preferred.
- Understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance practices (HIPAA or similar).
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
- 401K retirement plan with company match
- Flexible spending and health savings account
- Flex Time Off + company holidays
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pet insurance