Data Platform Engineer — AI-Powered Healthcare (Scale)

R1-Rc; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 105,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market compensation

Flexible PTO

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) matching

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer - Data Platform in Austin, TX to design and operate large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and backend services powering AI-driven healthcare applications.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver reliable data foundations, improve observability, and drive production-grade data platforms across a cloud-native stack. This role sits in our Austin hub and offers strong growth, competitive pay, and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with data platforms.
• Experience with Scala/SQL in production.
• Proficient in Python/Java/Go for APIs and ETL.
• Experience with distributed data systems and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate large-scale data pipelines and APIs.
• Build scalable data infrastructure using modern data engineering tech.
• Collaborate with AI/ML/product teams to support models.
• Drive observability and reliability, on-call rotations.

Skills

Scala

SQL

APIs

ETL pipelines

Python

Java

Go

Databricks

Apache Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer - Data Platform in Austin, TX to design and operate large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and backend services powering AI-driven healthcare applications.

You will collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver reliable data foundations, improve observability, and drive production-grade data platforms across a cloud-native stack. This role sits in our Austin hub and offers strong growth, competitive pay, and benefits.