Staff Data Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Healthcare

Plenful; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) with Company Match

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Daily Lunch Stipend

Wellness Stipend

Commuter Benefits

Parental Leave

Job summary

Plenful is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the data platform powering our AI-driven automation engine. You’ll define core data abstractions, shape data representations, and ensure auditability across decisions in a fast-growing healthcare tech stack on AWS, Postgres, and Python.

As the technical owner, you’ll guide architecture, set data contracts, and collaborate with product leads to scale reliability and performance while enabling rapid feature delivery.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in professional software engineering, building backend or data infrastructure in production.
• Deep expertise in relational databases: schema design, query performance, and data modeling tradeoffs.
• Designed and evolved data models in complex, growing systems.
• Operated production systems at scale, including incident response and reliability work.
• Hands-on coding in backend systems (Python-heavy environment).
• Strong reliability: observability, testing, and data integrity.
• Able to design data models with evolving product requirements and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and evolution of the core data model — domain entities, actions, and the audit trail that governs every automated decision.
• Build the data layer that AI agents read from and write to, ensuring context and compliance.
• Define how domain knowledge gets structured, versioned, and queried for richer context as the platform matures.
• Establish data contracts and APIs that give feature teams clean, stable interfaces to build against.
• Drive platform reliability as the customer base and traffic grow while maintaining performance.
• Set technical direction for the data platform in partnership with product and feature team leads.

Skills

12+ years experience

Data modeling

Relational databases

Python

Backend systems

Reliability

Healthcare domain knowledge

Tools

Postgres

AWS

SQL

Job description

Plenful is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the data platform powering our AI-driven automation engine. You’ll define core data abstractions, shape data representations, and ensure auditability across decisions in a fast-growing healthcare tech stack on AWS, Postgres, and Python.

As the technical owner, you’ll guide architecture, set data contracts, and collaborate with product leads to scale reliability and performance while enabling rapid feature delivery.