Staff Data Platform Engineer (Health Plan Data)

Location: USA; fully remote. Quarterly company meetups are required.

Base salary: $200,000–$233,000 annually, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a Series A startup building infrastructure for Dynamic Copay health plans and price-transparent healthcare for health insurance payors.

What you will do

• Define and drive the architecture for ingestion, conformance, storage, and serving of provider network, eligibility, claims, and plan design data.
• Establish data contracts, versioned configuration, build-once-and-promote patterns, traceable lineage, and shared platform standards.
• Build reliable, observable, audit-ready, append-only, and data-quality-focused systems in a HIPAA-regulated environment progressing toward SOC 2 and HITRUST.
• Design multi-tenant data services and platform capabilities that make onboarding additional payors a configuration exercise rather than a rewrite.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on sequenced delivery plans and own platform reliability, data correctness, and delivery outcomes.
• Lead design reviews and RFCs, mentor senior engineers, and guide the responsible use of AI tools for coding, testing, data quality, and documentation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of staff-level experience designing and building data platforms and distributed systems at scale, with technical leadership across teams.
• Healthcare data expertise covering X12 EDI, including 834, 837, and 835, eligibility, claims, provider data, and/or FHIR; comfort handling PHI under strict privacy controls.
• Deep data engineering experience with batch and streaming pipelines, analytical and operational data modeling, data quality, testing, lineage, and observability.
• Fluency with modern cloud data tooling; GCP is preferred, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage, plus Postgres, Python, Go, orchestration, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs and distributed services, owning SLOs and on-call responsibilities.
• Experience owning cross-cutting platform architecture decisions, writing design documents, and delivering pragmatic incremental improvements.
• Strong ownership, precise written communication, async-first working habits, and the ability to explain complex systems to engineers, product partners, and executives.
• Daily practical use of AI tools and coding agents, with clear judgment about where they are effective.

Nice to have

• Health plan or payor-side experience.
• Search and relevance systems, including entity resolution, anomaly detection, embeddings, or semantic search.
• gRPC API and SDK design.
• Dagster or Airflow; dbt or Dataform.
• Experience taking a platform through an enterprise or regulated-industry audit.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with quarterly company meetups.
• Base salary, bonus, equity, and competitive benefits.
• Unlimited PTO with a mandatory 12 days, plus medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with matching, computer, and home-office stipend.
• Autonomy and significant room for career growth.

Hiring process

• Application requires first name, last name, email, LinkedIn URL, location, and resume; a cover letter is optional.
• Applicants must provide base salary expectations and answer whether they will now or in the future require US employment-authorization sponsorship.