Senior Software Engineer, Data
Core
Building large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems that power Sidecar Health's core healthcare product.
Role type
Senior individual contributor platform/data engineer
Builds
High-throughput, distributed data pipelines and platform infrastructure for a US health insurance platform
Domain
Health insurance / Data engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python (strongly typed, production-grade), SQL (query tuning, data modeling), distributed systems architecture, AWS (Lambda, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch), Docker, observability (Datadog), AI tools (Claude, Cursor)
Preferred skills
FastAPI, Django, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK)
Responsibilities
Design and own high-throughput distributed data pipelines from concept to production; Decompose large ambiguous initiatives into structured executable plans; Write production-grade Python and optimize SQL at scale; Architect contracts between frontend, backend, and infrastructure; Mentor junior engineers and partner with leadership on roadmap; Instrument systems for observability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with full ownership
