Data Platform Engineer

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Want to build AI data infrastructure that processes half a billion patient encounters a year?

An AI healthcare company — backed by one of the largest healthcare platforms in the U.S. — is hiring Data Platform Engineers at multiple levels (Mid to Staff) for its NYC-based team. This is startup-level ownership with enterprise-scale distribution: your systems will power production workflows across 95 of the top 100 U.S. health systems from day one.

The team is building an AI-native clinical and financial automation platform — agentic AI that reasons over full medical records, payer logic, and financial workflows to automate medical coding, billing, and follow-up. The data platform team owns the foundations that make this possible: the ingestion pipelines, backend schemas, and APIs that feed both the AI engine and the user-facing application. You won't just be building plumbing — you'll have full visibility into the business impact of what you ship, including the economic outcomes your work drives across the platform.

Tech Stack

• Python, Go, or Java
• Spark
• Kafka
• Airflow
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• FHIR/HL7 (bonus)

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, with a minimum of 2 years building high-throughput data pipelines in production.
• Comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end — Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes are familiar territory.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Airflow, or Kafka at real scale, and you understand what it takes to keep complex pipelines observable and reliable.
• Worked on the data backend of an ML system or a production SaaS application, and you know how to instrument systems so problems surface before users feel them.
• Come from a technically rigorous environment — whether that's a tier-one tech company, an AI lab, or a high-growth startup doing genuinely interesting work — and you can speak to both what you built and the business outcome it drove.

Compensation

• $180,000–$250,000 base (level dependent)
• Yearly bonus
• Long-term incentives
• Comprehensive benefits