Remote Backend Engineer — Data Platform & Pipelines

Savant Bio; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Savant Bio is seeking a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform behind our clinical data products. You will design and implement ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery pipelines, focusing on reliability, reproducibility, and performance across Python, Rust, SQL, Dagster, and Kubernetes.

This role is remote-eligible with preference for candidates who can come to NYC. You will collaborate with AI, product, clinical, and engineering partners to build scalable backend

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production backend or data-intensive software systems.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Sound technical judgment, taste, and the ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions.
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines at scale using Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or a comparable orchestration framework.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and delivering healthcare datasets.
• Develop backend services and APIs that support Savant’s clinical data products.
• Build reliable Dagster workflows with strong patterns for partitioning, retries, idempotency, backfills, and observability.
• Design data models and contracts that support schema evolution, lineage, reproducibility, and downstream analysis.
• Operate and improve containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.
• Build systems for monitoring pipeline health, data quality, performance, and infrastructure cost.
• Diagnose production issues across application, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Improve the performance of Python and SQL workloads operating over large datasets.
• Establish testing and deployment practices that make data systems safer and easier to change.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to productionize new model workflows and scale them across customer datasets.
• Help shape technical architecture as Savant’s platform, customer base, and processing volume grow.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Communication

Tools

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

Job description

Savant Bio is seeking a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform behind our clinical data products. You will design and implement ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery pipelines, focusing on reliability, reproducibility, and performance across Python, Rust, SQL, Dagster, and Kubernetes.

This role is remote-eligible with preference for candidates who can come to NYC. You will collaborate with AI, product, clinical, and engineering partners to build scalable backend