Staff Data Platform Engineer - APIs & Cloud (Remote)

Ellkay, Llc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

Employer-paid Life and LTD

401k with matching

Remote work options

Gym membership / stipends

Job summary

ELLKAY is hiring a Staff Engineer - Data Platform & APIs to lead the design and development of scalable backend services, data pipelines, and cloud-native components. You will set API standards, build reusable data services, and drive operational excellence across teams in a hybrid work setup.

The role emphasizes security, observability, and enterprise-grade architecture, with collaboration across Data Platform, Data Architecture, Migration, and AI/ML teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building enterprise backend platforms and APIs.
• Hands-on data-engineering experience involving ingestion, transformation, and large-scale processing.
• Experience with AWS and modern cloud-native architecture.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, event-driven processing, security, and observability.
• Ability to operate as a senior technical leader across multiple teams.
• Healthcare data or interoperability experience is preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and platform components.
• Define standards for REST APIs, asynchronous APIs, event-driven processing, batch interfaces, versioning, authentication, authorization, retries, and idempotency.
• Develop reusable services for ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, data access, and workflow orchestration.
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Python, Java or equivalent backend technologies.
• Design services capable of supporting large-scale healthcare data processing while maintaining security, reliability, and auditability.
• Establish reusable API contracts, SDKs, templates, and engineering patterns for product and platform teams.
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure integration, observability, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency of platform services and data-processing workloads.
• Partner with Data Platform, Data Architecture, Migration, LKOasis, LKOpera, eMPI, Interoperability, and AI/ML teams.
• Lead technical design reviews and guide teams on backend, API, data-processing, and cloud architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards without having direct employee-management responsibility.
• Investigate complex production issues and lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
• Create architecture documentation, API specifications, operating procedures, and reusable implementation guides.

Skills

Backend architecture

Data engineering

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

API design

Technical leadership

Healthcare data familiarity

Tools

AWS

SQL

Python

Java

Job description

ELLKAY is hiring a Staff Engineer - Data Platform & APIs to lead the design and development of scalable backend services, data pipelines, and cloud-native components. You will set API standards, build reusable data services, and drive operational excellence across teams in a hybrid work setup.

The role emphasizes security, observability, and enterprise-grade architecture, with collaboration across Data Platform, Data Architecture, Migration, and AI/ML teams.