Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CHG Healthcare is a physician staffing and healthcare services company that connects doctors with patients and supports recruitment and practice-finding between physicians and employers. The Founding Senior Data Platform Engineer will own the development of a domain-oriented data architecture, including data stores, pipelines, canonical models, identity resolution, behavioral data systems, and AI-enabled workflows. The role will establish scalable data foundations across multiple systems while partnering closely with engineering and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Decompose a monolithic MySQL system into domain-oriented data stores. Define data ownership and source-of-truth boundaries. Establish data contracts between systems. Partner with engineering to implement pragmatic, incremental migration paths
- Design and implement pipelines for employer, job, and physician data. Define and maintain canonical entities and schemas. Solve identity resolution and deduplication across fragmented sources
- Design event tracking and behavioral data models. Enable cross-system visibility into user behavior. Support use cases such as matching and recommendations, funnel optimization, and employer–physician engagement
- Structure data for AI, ML, and LLM-based workflows. Build pipelines that support enrichment, ranking and matching, and feedback loops. Help define how AI integrates into product experiences
- Work directly with our engineering team and Product Manager. Use AI tools to accelerate development and decision-making. Translate ambiguous product needs into clear system design
Skills
- Strong experience designing and building data systems in production
- Experience with distributed or service-oriented architectures
- Deep understanding of: data modeling, data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) and, system boundaries and contracts
- Designing event-driven or behavioral data systems
- Building identity resolution / deduplication systems
- You are not just an architect; you build and ship
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and defining structure
- Favor pragmatic iteration over over-engineering
- Can operate as a solo owner of a domain
- 5–10+ years of experience in software or data engineering, much of that designing and building production data systems, ideally as an end-to-end owner
- CS or equivalent degree or experience
- Experience working in small, high-leverage teams
- Familiarity with modern data stacks (e.g., GCP, BigQuery, dbt, event pipelines)
- Experience enabling or integrating AI/LLM workflows
- Experience refactoring legacy or monolithic systems
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Medical and dental coverage
- Onsite health centers
- Corporate wellness programs
- Free behavioral health appointments
- Flexible work schedules, including work-from-home options
- Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility coverage
- Adoption assistance
- Marriage counseling
- Tailored training resources including free LinkedIn Learning courses
- Volunteer time off
- Employee-driven matching grants
- Tuition reimbursement programs
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