Job description
Opportunity Overview:
We’re seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and take ownership of designing and delivering large-scale, reliable, and governed data pipelines that power analytics, operations, and clinical intelligence across Cohere Health. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on solving complex data challenges, mentoring others, and raising engineering standards while contributing to scalable and sustainable platform growth.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll operate across the end-to-end data lifecycle—from ingestion to transformation to integration—driving solutions that align with architectural best practices, governance needs, and business outcomes. You’ll partner closely with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders to ensure that data products are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure across multiple domains
- Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise and raising team-wide engineering standards
- Implement and enforce data quality, schema validation, and observability practices to ensure trustworthy outputs
- Contribute to architecture discussions and tool evaluation, helping to shape platform scalability and governance alignment
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in Python and SQL, 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 cross-functional stakeholders (analytics, product, compliance) to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
- Participate in on-call rotations to support critical platform jobs and reduce operational disruptions
- Champion a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing
What you’ll need:
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software development with a strong focus on data infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience applying software engineering rigor to data workflows (testing, version control, observability)
- Hands-on experience with modern data tools such as Airflow, dbt, AWS (EMR, Athena, S3), Iceberg, Parquet, and Kafka
- Demonstrated success designing and delivering large-scale, reliable, and governed data infrastructure projects
- Track record of building and maintaining production grade systems using APIs
- 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, collaborating across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with healthcare data (claims, eligibility, clinical, EHR) is strongly preferred
- Understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance practices (HIPAA or similar) in pipeline and platform design
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field
Pay & Perks:
💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
🏝️ Up to 184 hours (23 days) of PTO per year + company holidays
👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
🐶 Pet insurance
The salary range for this position is $130,000 to $170,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.
Interview Process*:
- Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
- Meet your Hiring Manager!
- Live Technical Exercise
- Cross Functional Interview
*Subject to change
About Cohere Health:
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.
Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.
The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.
We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.
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