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In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need-and ultimately get back to lives lived in full.\nSince 2020, Sword has expanded across physical therapy, women’s health, cardiometabolic, and mental health, and is now moving beyond the session to a fully AI-native, 24/7 care program that brings physical activity, therapeutic exercise, psychotherapy, nutrition, and behavior change into one connected experience. More than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 million AI sessions, helping 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies, 44+ patents, and more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund, Sword is defining a new standard for healthcare.\nAI Proficiency at Sword\nAI fluency is a core expectation at Sword. Every candidate is assessed against our three-level framework - be ready to share real examples of how AI is already part of how you work.\nExplorer (Level 1) - Uses AI daily to boost personal productivity\n\nBuilder (Level 2) - Creates workflows and tools that elevate the whole team\n\nIntegrator (Level 3) - Embeds AI into products and processes at scale\n\nEvery hire must demonstrate at least Level 1. The expected level will vary depending on the seniority of the role.\nRole\nAt Sword, data powers our mission to build a pain-free world. The Data Platform Team is building the foundation that makes data usable across clinical, operations, AI, and product teams: a modern streaming lakehouse, distributed processing for low-latency data movement, durable workflows coordinating complex operations, and an API-first surface that lets producers and consumers serve themselves - without tickets, without infra context, and increasingly through agentic interfaces.\nThis role is for an engineer who thinks about data platforms as products. You’ve built or operated data systems at scale, you reason fluently from storage format up to query engine, and you want to shape the self-service and agentic experiences layered on top of that foundation.\nTo get to know more about our Tech Stack, check here.\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDesign and evolve Sword’s streaming lakehouse - the foundation that every data consumer in the company depends on.\n\nBuild and operate distributed streaming pipelines that move data at low latency and high reliability.\n\nOwn the durable workflows that coordinate complex data movement across systems.\n\nShape the platform’s API surface - the interface producers and consumers use so they never need to touch infrastructure.\n\nDrive evaluations and integrations with vendor data platforms, sitting inside the architectural trade-offs rather than just consuming the output.\n\nContribute to the self-service and agentic layer: interfaces designed to be consumed by humans, systems, and AI agents alike.\n\nPartner with data engineers and analysts on contracts, governance, and lineage.\n\nBuild and maintain AI-ready data infrastructure that powers ML and AI-driven products across Sword.\n\nLeverage AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, automate documentation, and raise code quality.\n\nWork in a regulated environment where audit, compliance, and governance are part of every design.\n\nWhat you need to have\nProven experience designing and operating data platforms at scale - warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse architectures in production.\n\nHands-on experience with a modern lakehouse table format - Iceberg strongly preferred; Delta Lake or Hudi also welcome. You understand how the format works under the hood: metadata layout, snapshots, manifests, compaction, copy-on-write vs. merge-on-read.\n\nClear mental model of catalogs (REST, Polaris, Glue, Unity, Hive) - their trade-offs, and how compute stays detached from storage.\n\nExposure to at least one vendor lakehouse or query platform - Snowflake, Starburst, or Databricks - at the level where you can reason about its architecture, not just use its UI.\n\nStrong experience with a distributed processing engine - Flink strongly preferred; Spark also fine. You can reason about its internals, fine-tune a running job, and debug a pipeline that’s silently degrading.\n\nFamiliarity with durable execution - Temporal, Restate, or similar - or at minimum a solid mental model of what durable execution means and why it matters for data workflows.\n\nProduction experience building and operating APIs (REST or gRPC) at scale - good instincts about contracts, versioning, retries, rate limiting, and observability.\n\nSolid understanding of Kafka and event-driven architectures (producers/consumers, partitioning, delivery semantics).\n\nComfortable in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech, gov) where audit, compliance, and data governance are part of every design.\n\nPlatform mindset: you design for self-service, API-first, and with systems and agents - not only humans - as legitimate consumers.\n\nBonus\nDeeper familiarity with open/REST catalogs (Polaris, Nessie, Unity) beyond basic use.\n\nObservability stack fluency (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).\n\nPrior work on agentic or AI-facing API surfaces, or MCP-style interfaces.\n\nExperience in HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 environments.\n\ndbt, DataHub, or data contract tooling exposure.\n\nMindset and Collaboration\nService orientation: you build APIs (and increasingly agent-facing tools) that others love to use.\n\nReliability-first: failure modes, retries, and observability are part of day-one design.\n\nCross-functional: you enjoy working with data engineers, analysts, and ML engineers and understanding their problems.\n\nDocumentation mindset: good APIs come with great docs - and good docs now means machine-readable too.\n\nIterative: you ship incrementally and improve based on feedback.\n\n*The range below reflects base, variable, and equity for this role.\nThis is a starting point, not a ceiling - once someone joins and proves they're outlier talent, we adjust quickly to make sure their compensation matches their impact.\nJob titles may span more than one career level, so actual pay depends on skills, qualifications, experience, location, and market demand, among other factors. The range reflects base salary plus any variable, bonus, or sales incentives, and our estimate of the value of private company stock options where applicable. It's subject to change, and future stock value isn't guaranteed. 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