Senior Data Engineer, Sentinel (Pacific Time Zone)

Komodo Health is dedicated to reducing the global burden of disease through smarter use of data. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their Platform team, where the role involves building and operating cloud infrastructure, enhancing data processing systems, and implementing automation to support healthcare data architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Have developed a deep understanding of Platform and Platform customers
• Have built and operated cloud infrastructure (AWS) based on customer requirements
• Have solved any development and deployment challenges around making Platform infrastructure highly reliable, easy to maintain, and cost-effective
• Have participated in the development, execution, and support of the new feature rollout with solution architects, forward-deployed engineers, and customer success teams
• Led the development of improvements to data infrastructure, pipeline automation, codebase quality, and/or data quality
• Designed, architected and/or implemented systems for supporting data processing tasks, like metadata, configuration and/or data pipeline inputs
• Have developed and contributed to existing and new monitoring and alerting systems for Platform infrastructure
• Have hardened infrastructure security including network, storage, user access, etc
• Have responded and solved key customer reported issues in a timely manner
• Participated in an on-call rotation
• Spearheaded the adoption of AI-driven development workflows, integrating LLM-based tools into the SDLC to accelerate feature delivery and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Python, with deep technical troubleshooting skills and extensive experience building backend APIs and microservices
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS core services and the ability to architect scalable solutions from high-level requirements
• Proficiency in Terraform/Scalr and experience building robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (subnets, CIDR, VPCs) to ensure secure, global application accessibility
• Expert with big-data tools and workflow orchestrators such as Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Temporal
• Ability to leverage AI tools (Gemini, ChatGPT, Cursor) to streamline engineering workflows and enhance personal productivity
• A proactive team player with excellent cross-team communication skills and a proven track record of driving complex projects to completion
• Experience with AWS preferred. AWS Cloud Infrastructure certification is a plus
• Experience with data privacy concerns such as HIPAA or GDPR
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and with other customer-facing teams
• Passion! We hope you are passionate about our mission and technology
• Ownership! We hope you own your work, be accountable, and push it through the finish line. We hope you treat yourself as a cofounder and do not hesitate to share any idea that helps Komodo
• Expertise! We do not need you to know everything, but we hope you have deep knowledge in at least one area and can start contributing quickly. And we would love to learn from you in your area(s) of expertise as well