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[Remote] Senior Data Engineer, Data Foundation— AI-Ready Data Products

Worldwide Salaried Open

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Komodo Health is dedicated to reducing the global burden of disease through smarter data usage. The Senior Data Engineer will design, build, and optimize large-scale data pipelines and foundational data products that support the Healthcare Map and enhance data-driven health outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and optimize large-scale production data pipelines using Python, SQL, Airflow, cloud infrastructure, and distributed processing frameworks
  • Transform massive healthcare claims, EHR, and reference datasets into trusted, performant Healthcare Map data products and serving-ready data assets
  • Strengthen pipeline reliability through data quality checks, validation, lineage, observability, monitoring, and alerting
  • Debug complex data, system, and performance issues across computationally intensive workflows
  • Partner with Data Product Quality, Product, Platform, and Engineering teams to translate healthcare data needs into scalable technical solutions
  • Contribute to system design, architecture, code quality, testing, documentation, CI/CD, and rotational production support
  • Enable downstream analytics, product, and AI/ML use cases through high-quality, well-modeled, reliable data

Skills

  • Healthcare data experience across claims, clinical, RWE, provider, patient, or life sciences datasets, including coding systems such as ICD-10, CPT, NDC, or NPI
  • Strong hands-on experience building, operating, and debugging production-grade data pipelines at scale
  • Advanced Python and SQL skills, with experience in Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools
  • Experience with Spark or comparable distributed data processing frameworks
  • Proven experience designing and operating data solutions in AWS
  • Strong instincts for data quality, reliability, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and collaborate with engineering, product, and data partners
  • Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools for productivity, debugging, documentation, and technical exploration
  • Experience delivering external-facing data products through customers, APIs, serving layers, or production access patterns
  • Ability to optimize high-scale data architectures for performance, cost, versioning, and large-volume productization
  • Experience applying AI or agentic workflows to engineering, data quality, delivery, or operations
  • Success in high-growth or ambiguous environments that require balancing architecture, speed, and quality

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonuses as determined in the Company’s sole discretion and in accordance with a written agreement or plan
  • Equity awards
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible time off and holidays
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Disability insurance and life insurance
  • Leaves of absence in accordance with applicable state and local laws and regulations and company policy

Company Overview

  • Komodo Health is an IT firm that specializes in data engineering, life sciences, artificial intelligence, and machine intelligence services. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.komodohealth.com/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Komodo Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 15 in 2025, 17 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 24 in 2022, 21 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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