Key skills
PythonGoJavaMicroservicesRESTGraphQLTypeScriptReactNext.jsAWSMulti-cloud architecturesKubernetesDockerInfrastructure-as-code toolingSnowflakeSparkSQLS3Data engineering workflowsData pipelinesAirflowAWS GlueKafkaKinesisDataDogGrafanaCloudWatchOAuth2SAMLEncryptionTokenizationZero-trust security frameworksLarge-scale distributed systemsSystem designData architectureSecurityOrganizational influenceLeadershipCollaboration
About this role
Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, aiming to make health data secure and accessible. The Staff Software Engineer will shape the technical direction and architecture, drive innovation, and mentor senior engineers to maximize impact within the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Define and lead multi-team technical strategies for scalability and interoperability
- Design frameworks and reusable systems used across multiple engineering pods. Define engineering patterns adopted across Datavant
- Drive cross-functional initiatives in data architecture, security, and reliability
- Advise leadership on technical direction and major tradeoffs. Represent engineering in executive technical decisions and planning
- Mentor senior engineers and influence cultural and architectural evolution
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated system design mastery
- Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems, multi-cloud architectures, data pipelines, and security
- Strong organizational influence and ability to align teams across verticals
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into scalable engineering execution
- Commitment to mentorship, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Operate as a trusted technical advisor and thought leader. Create clarity in ambiguous, cross-functional problem spaces
- Balance vision with pragmatic implementation and organizational awareness
- Champion scalability, security, and compliance as shared responsibilities
- Elevate engineering standards and inspire architectural excellence
- Act with integrity, empathy, and long-term impact orientation
- Earn trust through architectural stewardship and enterprise-grade reliability
- Obsess over customers by driving scalable, secure, high-impact solutions
- Prioritize growth over comfort by embracing the hardest challenges and modeling excellence
- Win as a team by aligning pods, shaping cross-functional strategy, and building talent
- Rise to the challenge by delivering transformative initiatives that move Datavant forward