Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer: Pipelines Governance

Cohere Health; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave (up to 14 weeks)

Paid time off & wellness

Job summary

Cohere Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to own end-to-end data pipelines, governance, and scalable infrastructure. You will collaborate with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders to ensure data products are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.

You’ll design and implement large-scale data pipelines, mentor engineers, and contribute to platform scalability while embracing best practices in CI/CD and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software development with a focus on data infrastructure.
• Experience delivering large-scale, governed data infrastructure projects.
• Strong Python and SQL, with testing and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure across multiple domains.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise team engineering standards.
• Implement data quality, schema validation, and observability for trustworthy outputs.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and platform governance alignment.
• Write clean, maintainable Python and SQL, with good CI/CD and documentation.
• Monitor and optimize production workflows using Airflow, dbt, AWS services, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and compliance stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical platform jobs.

Skills

Data pipelines design

Mentoring

Python

SQL

Airflow

dbt

AWS

Snowflake / Databricks

Kafka / Parquet

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

Tools

Airflow

dbt

AWS (EMR, Athena, S3)

Iceberg

Parquet

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Cohere Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform team to own end-to-end data pipelines, governance, and scalable infrastructure. You will collaborate with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders to ensure data products are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.

You’ll design and implement large-scale data pipelines, mentor engineers, and contribute to platform scalability while embracing best practices in CI/CD and documentation.