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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Datavant
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Computing Platforms, Cloud Engineering, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, Performance Tuning, Raw Data, Zero Trust Network Access, Next.js, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Tokenization, TypeScript, Datadog, ReactJS, Snowflake, Grafana, Apache Spark, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/9BF5A6858246452F84993A6A3192E3EE/job/

## About the Role

* 6+ years of professional experience developing and scaling distributed systems.
 * Deep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and backend frameworks.
 * Proven record of leading major technical projects from inception to launch.
 * Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security).
 * Commitment to data integrity, privacy, and operational excellence.

Leadership Qualities & Mindset

Provides architectural leadership and technical clarity. Identify systemic issues and drive cross-team solutions.

 * Inspire confidence through technical expertise and build talent through thoughtful mentorship.
 * Balance innovation with pragmatic execution and long-term maintainability.
 * Act with humility, integrity, and focus on team success.
 * Drive alignment between engineering goals and business outcomes.

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead major initiatives that advance Datavant's platform scalability and reliability. You'll drive technical design, coach peers, and ensure system-wide quality and consistency.

What You'll Do

 * Own architectural design and end-to-end delivery for key systems or migrations.
 * Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to set technical direction.
 * Design scalable microservices and guide system decomposition initiatives.
 * Drive performance optimization, observability, and reliability improvements.
 * Mentor engineers at multiple levels and enhance team culture through best practices.

Tech Stack You'll Work With

Senior engineers at this level are expected to leverage Datavant technologies effectively, demonstrate fluency across the stack, and use their architectural experience to design systems that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable within Datavant's platform. Your work will span Datavant's core platform technologies, including:

 * Backend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL
 * Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
 * Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools
 * Data: Snowflake, Spark, SQL; S3 for raw data
 * ETL & Pipelines: Airflow/Glue
 * Streaming: Kafka or Kinesis
 * Observability: DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch
 * Security: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, zero-trust architecture


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