Cohere Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and governed data pipelines that power analytics, operations, and clinical intelligence across the company. The role aims to solve complex data challenges, mentor junior engineers, and raise engineering standards to contribute to scalable and sustainable platform growth.
Requirements
- 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
- Understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance practices (HIPAA or similar) in pipeline and platform design
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure across multiple domains
- 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
Other
- Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise and raising team-wide engineering standards
- Champion a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement 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
- Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
