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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff-level IC - **Company:** Komodo Health - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $208,000.0 - $282,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Clinical Data Repository, Software Quality, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Validation, Data Infrastructure, Data Sharing, Data Systems, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Computing Environment, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Management of Software Versions, Rust (Programming Language), Data Processing, Apache Spark, Core Data, GPT - **Published:** June 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/62e0cf9f-cb16-44e6-b9c4-0b8f9dc6541a ## About the Role * Data Product Engineering Expertise: Extensive experience building production-grade, large-scale data products, services, and analytical systems that serve real customer and business use cases. * Modern Data Systems Depth: Strong technical depth across SQL, distributed data processing, cloud data platforms, MPP databases, and high-scale compute frameworks such as Spark, Python, Rust, C++, or equivalent technologies. * Architecture & Systems Design: Demonstrated ability to design data models, serving patterns, platform components, and system architectures for complex, high-volume data environments. * Healthcare Data Product Judgment: Ability to reason through data quality, identity, longitudinal patient journeys, claims or clinical data complexity, and downstream consumption needs. * AI & ML Enablement: Experience designing data workflows, feature pipelines, evaluation datasets, or infrastructure that supports AI/ML training, inference, experimentation, and monitoring. * Analytical & Statistical Rigor: Strong ability to use data analysis, statistical reasoning, hypothesis testing, and experimental design to validate product quality and business impact. * Technical Communication: Ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and delivery status clearly to engineers, product partners, data scientists, and senior stakeholders. * AI-Augmented Engineering: Ability to use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Claude, or similar systems to improve engineering productivity, design quality, testing, documentation, and decision-making. Additional skills and experience we'd prioritize (nice to have): * Healthcare Data Experience: Experience with claims, clinical, RWE, provider, patient, or life sciences data, including familiarity with coding systems such as ICD-10, CPT, NDC, RxNorm, NPI, or taxonomy data. * Data Product Delivery: Experience building and operating data products that are consumed by customers, analytics users, APIs, applications, or serving layers. * High-Scale Data Architecture: Experience designing systems for large-volume data processing, productization, versioning, delivery, performance optimization, and cost efficiency. * Applied AI / Agentic Workflows: Experience using, designing, or integrating AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering productivity, data quality, extraction, curation, testing, or product delivery. * Fast-Growth Execution: Experience operating in high-growth or ambiguous environments where technical leaders must balance architecture, delivery, quality, and speed. The pay range for each job posting reflects a minimum and maximum range of annual base pay that we reasonably expect to pay for this position within the US. We carefully consider multiple business-related factors when determining compensation, including job-related skills, work experience, geographic work location, relevant training and certifications, business needs and market demands. ## Description * Innovation in Healthcare Data: Developed a deep understanding of domain-specific challenges and introduced innovative algorithms that address complex patient journey mapping. * Collaborative Roadmap Delivery: Partnered across Data Product and Engineering to define technical requirements and deliver scalable, production-grade solutions that meet business needs. * Platform Hardening: Built and hardened core Data Foundations components, measurable through improved reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency of our Healthcare Map products. * Technical Multiplication: Mentored and up-leveled the engineering team, raising the bar for code quality and system design through coaching and rigorous design reviews. These are the essential job duties you will be responsible for... * Data Product Development & Delivery: Architect, build, and deliver scalable Healthcare Map data products that power direct customer use cases, APIs, analytics surfaces, serving layers, and internal applications. * Scalable Data Systems: Design and implement high-performance data processing and serving patterns across large-scale healthcare datasets, using the right tools for the problem across SQL, Python, Spark, Rust, C++, and emerging AI-enabled engineering workflows. * Foundational Data Models: Create shared data models, productized datasets, reusable libraries, and technical standards that become the foundation for downstream product, analytics, and application teams. * Serving & Consumption Enablement: Build data products that are easy to consume through APIs, serving layers, exports, analytics environments, and customer-facing delivery mechanisms. * Cross-Functional Product Delivery: Partner with Product, Data Science, Quality, Platform, and application teams to translate complex healthcare use cases into production-grade technical designs and execution plans. * Technical Leadership: Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives, making clear trade-offs across performance, scalability, maintainability, cost, reliability, and time-to-market. * Quality, Observability & Trust: Define and implement data quality checks, validation frameworks, observability, lineage, monitoring, and alerting to ensure Healthcare Map products are accurate, explainable, and reliable. * Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar for system design, code quality, documentation, testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness across the team. * Engineering Leverage: Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical deep dives, pairing, and architectural guidance, helping the team make better decisions at scale. ## Related Videos - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Recruitment Reinvented: Bold strategies and the $10K signing incentive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1068-recruitment-reinvented-bold-strategies-and-the-10k-signing-incentive) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/162-highest-paying-tech-companies-in-europe) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023)