Staff Software Engineer: Lead Architect for Scalable Systems

Datavant; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction and architecture of our platform. You will drive innovation across verticals, own large-scale distributed systems, and mentor senior engineers to maximize impact.

You will lead cross-team strategies for scalability, security, and reliability, while guiding architectural evolution and defining reusable patterns across engineering pods.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated system design mastery.
• Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems, multi-cloud architectures, data pipelines, and security.
• Strong organizational influence and ability to align teams across verticals.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into scalable engineering execution.
• Commitment to mentorship, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead multi-team technical strategies for scalability and interoperability.
• Design frameworks and reusable systems used across multiple engineering pods.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives in data architecture, security, and reliability.
• Advise leadership on technical direction and major tradeoffs; represent engineering in executive decisions.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architectural evolution.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-cloud

Mentorship

Technical leadership

Security & compliance

Data pipelines

Go/Python/Java

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

DataDog

Grafana

CloudWatch

Snowflake/Spark

Job description

Datavant is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical direction and architecture of our platform. You will drive innovation across verticals, own large-scale distributed systems, and mentor senior engineers to maximize impact.

You will lead cross-team strategies for scalability, security, and reliability, while guiding architectural evolution and defining reusable patterns across engineering pods.