Remote-Eligible Backend Engineer - Healthcare Data Pipelines

Savant Bio, Inc.; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Savant Bio, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform underpinning Savant’s clinical data products.

You will design and implement systems that move large, complex datasets through ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery. This role emphasizes data engineering and infrastructure, working with Python and Rust services, SQL-based data stores, Dagster pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads, with remote-eligible options and a preference for NYC-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend or data-intensive software systems.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.

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

Dagster

Communication

Tools

DuckDB

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Dagster

Kubernetes

Job description

Savant Bio, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform underpinning Savant’s clinical data products.

You will design and implement systems that move large, complex datasets through ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery. This role emphasizes data engineering and infrastructure, working with Python and Rust services, SQL-based data stores, Dagster pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads, with remote-eligible options and a preference for NYC-based