Staff Software Engineer

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health. 

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

Staff Software Engineer 

The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will shape the technical direction and architecture of your business unit/vertical. You’ll drive innovation across verticals, solve large-scale system challenges, and mentor senior engineers to maximize impact. You operate with autonomy and influence outcomes at the vertical and/or organizational level.

What You’ll Do

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

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work across the full breadth of Datavant’s platform and are expected to operate comfortably within our multi-cloud, large-scale distributed systems environment. Your work will span:

• Backend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js (as needed for full-stack or cross-domain work)
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, multi-cloud architectures, Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Data Platforms: Snowflake, Spark, SQL, S3; advanced data engineering workflows and high-scale data pipelines
• ETL & Orchestration: Airflow or AWS Glue
• Streaming: Kafka or Kinesis for real-time ingestion and system integrations
• Observability: Enterprise-level telemetry systems including DataDog, Grafana, and CloudWatch
• Security & Compliance: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, and zero-trust security frameworks

Staff Engineers at this level are expected to apply deep architectural expertise across these technologies, define scalable patterns, guide cross-team adoption, and ensure Datavant’s platform meets the highest standards of reliability, security, and performance.

What You Bring

• 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.

Leadership Qualities & Mindset

• Operate as a trusted technical advisor and thought leader. Create clarity in ambiguous, cross-functional problem spaces.
• Balance vision with pragmatic implementation and organizational awareness.
• Champion scalability, security, and compliance as shared responsibilities.
• Elevate engineering standards and inspire architectural excellence.
• Act with integrity, empathy, and long-term impact orientation.

Core Value Expectations

• Earn trust through architectural stewardship and enterprise-grade reliability.
• Obsess over customers by driving scalable, secure, high-impact solutions.
• Prioritize growth over comfort by embracing the hardest challenges and modeling excellence.
• Win as a team by aligning pods, shaping cross-functional strategy, and building talent.
• Rise to the challenge by delivering transformative initiatives that move Datavant forward.

Why This Role Matters

This role defines the future of Datavant’s technology architecture and engineering standards. Your leadership empowers teams, resolves systemic challenges, and builds the technical foundation that powers secure, scalable healthcare data exchange across the ecosystem. As a Staff Engineer, you influence strategy, drive innovation, and ensure Datavant continues to lead in secure data interoperability.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:

$220,000—$275,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay. 

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