Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. CHAI is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable internal platforms, data products, and AI-enabled systems that support teams across the organization. The role also involves collaborating with IT, Operations, and Program teams to integrate tools with existing systems and meet security standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable platform services used by 2,000 people in 35 countries
- Build-out and productionize our current data products (workflows, data warehouses, reporting)
- Create AI-enabled systems that are reliable, maintainable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy for internal teams to adopt as we look to significantly scale-up in the next two years
- Collaborate with IT, Operations, and Program teams to ensure tools fit how people actually work, integrate with existing systems, and meet modern security standards
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 3+ years of building and shipping code
- * Proven backend and systems engineering skills
- * Strong organizational instincts. The ability to understand what teams need, identify what is worth building, and partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders
- * Ownership. The ability to take uncertainty and drive towards success
- * Genuine commitment to CHAI's mission and the operating realities of a global health organization working in resource-constrained, cross-cultural contexts
- * Familiarity with technical tools used at CHAI: DBT, Superset, Javascript, React, Supabase, Python, Typescript, PostgreSQL
- * Experience applying agentic tooling to engineering workflows
- * Experience building tools for enterprise workflows (HR, Finance, Legal, Operations, or similar) and dealing with compliance requirements
Benefits
- The base location is flexible; candidates can be based in any of the geographies that CHAI operates in, subject to work authorization and necessary approvals.
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