Staff Databricks Platform Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

Modernizing Medicine, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

PTO & parental leave

Hybrid/remote options

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

Modernizing Medicine, Inc. (ModMed) seeks a hands‑on Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our Databricks platform on AWS.

This role delivers shared infrastructure, guardrails, observability, and self‑service capabilities used by Data Engineering, Analytics, ML, and MLOps across regulated healthcare data. The position reports to the Director of Data Platform Engineering and begins as an individual contributor, with no initial direct reports.

Qualifications

• Ownership of Databricks on AWS in a multi‑team production environment.
• Experience with Unity Catalog, identity federation, service principals, and auditability.
• Proficiency in Terraform and IaC practices with CI/CD.
• Strong AWS knowledge across IAM, VPC, private connectivity, S3, KMS, and security.
• Experience with Spark and distributed computing.
• Python for automation, shell scripting, and REST API integration.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own Databricks platform across development, test, and production environments; automate provisioning and governance.
• Manage Unity Catalog, metastore, credentials, lineage, and access controls; define compute patterns and policies.
• Lead IaC strategy with Terraform; build reusable modules and CI/CD workflows; ensure drift detection and security.
• Implement cloud guardrails, monitoring, budgeting, and cost optimization across workloads.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, ML, and DevOps teams to enable self-service platform capabilities.

Skills

Databricks on AWS

Unity Catalog

Terraform / IaC

AWS IAM & S3

Spark / distributed computing

Python automation

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Job description

Modernizing Medicine, Inc. (ModMed) seeks a hands‑on Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our Databricks platform on AWS.

This role delivers shared infrastructure, guardrails, observability, and self‑service capabilities used by Data Engineering, Analytics, ML, and MLOps across regulated healthcare data. The position reports to the Director of Data Platform Engineering and begins as an individual contributor, with no initial direct reports.