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# Software Engineer I, Data Content

- **Company:** Tempus Inc
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Software Systems, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Apache Spark, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8c9b63cd-204e-49f4-b264-82af367896e1

## About the Role

* You've got a few years of experience working on software development teams, and can help lead in technical analysis & design, evaluating tradeoffs, and establishing best practices
 * You love exploring hard problems and solving them with data-driven, iterative software development
 * You understand the challenges and appreciate the rewards of a distributed and event-based architecture
 * You've worked in fast-paced, agile environments and helped keep projects on track, troubleshoot roadblocks, write documentation, and coordinate cross-team collaboration
 * You enjoy learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members

Bonus points for:

 * Experience with Docker, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
 * Experience in Python, Spark, dbt, SQL, Airflow
 * Experience in biotech, genomics, and precision medicine

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale high-quality software systems at Tempus. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who can work across the stack, contribute to architecture and design, improve engineering quality, and collaborate effectively across teams to deliver reliable products and services. Come help our team build the de-identification systems behind Tempus, which turn identified clinical, molecular, and other patient data into research-ready datasets. You'll design and scale the data pipelines and event-driven services that protect patient privacy while preserving the data's analytic utility for precision medicine research., * Own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals of the team

 * Navigate ambiguity and remain resilient through ups and downs
 * Work collaboratively with leadership to set realistic ambitious goals, breaking those goals down to smaller projects for the team to execute on
 * Support the growth of teammates by taking into account their skills, background and workstyles
 * Give constructive feedback, coaching more than criticizing and avoiding blame to solve the right problems. Ultimately, disagreeing and committing when necessary.
 * Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements
 * Proactively identify issues with technical dependencies of your project that are owned by other teams and surface them