About the Role

Have you ever wanted to build data systems that actually heal people? At Sword Health, we are pioneering AI Care to transform how healthcare reaches millions around the globe. We need a Senior Data Platform Engineer who loves tackling massive scale, complex architecture, and high-impact problems. This is a fully remote, worldwide opportunity allowing you to work from anywhere on the planet while helping us reshape the future of medicine.

Overview

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and scale our core data infrastructure. You will work alongside brilliant engineers, researchers, and clinicians to ensure our data pipelines are lightning-fast, highly secure, and reliable. Your work directly empowers our frontier AI models to deliver real-time treatment and medical reasoning for over a million members globally.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust distributed data pipelines and scalable data lakes.
Partner with machine learning teams to optimize data ingestion and feature stores for AI model training.
Ensure data governance, privacy, and compliance across all systems supporting our multi-specialty care programs.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex data architecture bottlenecks to guarantee high availability.
Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in data engineering across the organization.

Requirements

Strong background in building large-scale data platforms using modern cloud technologies.
Expertise in programming languages such as Python or Scala.
Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark, Kafka, or Flink.
Proven track record of managing data warehouses and data lakes in production environments.
A passion for healthcare innovation and a desire to build technology that improves human lives.

What You'll Gain

The chance to work at the bleeding edge of healthcare and artificial intelligence.
Complete location independence with our fully remote, worldwide work model.
Competitive compensation and equity in a fast-growing, well-backed global company.
Opportunities to collaborate with top-tier talent from diverse professional backgrounds.