Global Data Platform Engineer

Clinton Health Access Initiative; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is looking for a hands-on builder to design, develop, and ship internal platforms that transform how the organization works across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We have found most off-the-shelf tools lacking, and we have committed to building first-class tools for our team, that use cutting-edge technology, that will benefit the entire sector.

Recent examples include building a data foundation (Data warehouse, MCP, Superset) and creating a finance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 3+ years of building and shipping code.
• Proven backend and systems engineering skills.
• Strong organizational instincts to understand what teams need and to partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership and the ability to drive uncertain projects to success.
• Genuine commitment to CHAI's mission in resource-constrained, cross-cultural contexts.
• Familiarity with technical tools used at CHAI: DBT, Superset, Javascript, React, Supabase, Python, Typescript, PostgreSQL.
• Experience applying agentic tooling to engineering workflows.
• Experience building tools for enterprise workflows (HR, Finance, Legal, Operations, or similar) and dealing with compliance requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform services used by 2,000 people in 35 countries
• Build-out and productionize our current data products (workflows, data warehouses, reporting)
• Create AI-enabled systems that are reliable, maintainable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy for internal teams to adopt as we look to significantly scale-up in the next two years
• Collaborate with IT, Operations, and Program teams to ensure tools fit how people actually work, integrate with existing systems, and meet modern security standards

Skills

Backend

Systems engineering

JS/TS

Python

PostgreSQL

Data warehousing

AI tooling

Cross-functional

Ownership

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

DBT

Superset

React

Supabase

PostgreSQL

Python

TypeScript

Javascript

Job description

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is looking for a hands-on builder to design, develop, and ship internal platforms that transform how the organization works across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We have found most off-the-shelf tools lacking, and we have committed to building first-class tools for our team, that use cutting-edge technology, that will benefit the entire sector.

Recent examples include building a data foundation (Data warehouse, MCP, Superset) and creating a finance