Sr. Software Engineer, Data Platform

Cohere Health

10d • $135,000 - $160,000 • Remote

About The Position

Cohere Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Data Platform team and design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and governed data pipelines that support analytics, operations, and clinical intelligence. The role spans the data lifecycle from ingestion through transformation and integration, with a focus on architectural best practices, governance, and business outcomes. The engineer will partner with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders to build performant, compliant, and trustworthy data products. This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, Massachusetts, for new-hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events. The posting estimates travel at about 5%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field is required.
• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering or software development, with a strong 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, including testing, version control, and observability.
• 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 through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance practices such as HIPAA or similar in pipeline and platform design.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with healthcare data, including claims, eligibility, clinical, or EHR data, is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Snowflake or Databricks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure across multiple domains.
• 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 to shape platform scalability and governance alignment.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable Python and SQL code, following best practices in version control, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Optimize and monitor production workflows using tools such as Airflow, dbt, Athena, EMR, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and compliance stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business needs.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical platform jobs and reduce operational disruptions.
• Promote engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Flexible spending account and health savings account.
• Flex Time Off and company holidays.
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Pet insurance.
• Bonus as part of the total benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior