Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is seeking a Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale a data platform for a health-tech company. This hands-on role involves developing scalable data services and solving complex platform challenges to support future products and business growth.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale the company's next-generation data platform and software services
- Architect scalable data models, schemas, APIs, and backend systems
- Develop high-performance applications and platform capabilities using Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS
- Establish best practices for data quality, governance, observability, reliability, and performance
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to define platform strategy and technical direction
- Support platform growth as customer adoption, data volume, and product complexity increase
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering excellence across the organization
Skills
- 12+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend systems, data platforms, or distributed applications
- Strong hands-on software development experience with Python
- Deep expertise in data modeling, schema design, SQL, relational databases, and performance optimization
- Proven experience building platforms from scratch (0→1) and scaling them through significant growth (1→2 and beyond)
- Experience working in both startup environments and mid-to-large-scale organizations
- Strong experience building cloud-based applications and scalable distributed systems
- Experience supporting production environments, including monitoring, observability, reliability, and incident response
- Strong architectural and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound technical decisions in evolving environments
- Experience within SaaS, fintech, healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex data-driven environments
- Experience supporting analytics, automation, AI, machine learning, or data-intensive products
- Background in high-growth startup or venture-backed companies
- Experience leading technical initiatives while remaining hands-on with development
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, equity package, and comprehensive benefits
- 100% remote work environment
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