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Senior Data Engineer

NY office

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

What You'll Do

This role will design and develop data pipeline frameworks and technology in partnership with software engineering teams in New York. Additionally, this role will collaborate with other Flatiron employees across our UK, Germany, and Japan offices, and will work day-to-day with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them. In addition, you will:

  • Create new or enhance existing business critical, complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools and automation
  • Implement ETL frameworks that ensure our delivered data products meet high standards for quality, reliability, and depth
  • Innovate new ways of integrating emerging AI technologies with existing systems
  • Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges to help the team scale
  • Contribute to shaping the direction of team roadmaps and technology development
  • Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure stability, extensibility, and security
  • Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in the US, including data sources, security, privacy, information governance requirements, and emerging trends

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback, and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.

  • You’re a data engineer with 4-8 years of relevant professional experience
  • You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
  • You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
  • You have experience with agile development environments using object-oriented programming and database languages (e.g. Python, C#, SQL), but are also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
  • You have experience working with cloud platforms like AWS and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake
  • You act as an expert in your domain area, and as a partner with product teams
  • You understand the purpose of “boring” technology (as described in this blog post) and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done
  • You can collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience; you have superior communication skills
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn

Extra credit

  • You have experience working in healthcare in the United States or exposure to healthcare-related standards
  • You hold a Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
  • You have experience applying modern AI tools (e.g., LLMs and agentic coding assistants) in software workflows
  • You have experience in infrastructure, devops, or security engineering

Where You’ll Work

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Life at Flatiron

At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:

  • Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive compensation package
  • 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
  • Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
  • Mental well-being tools and services
  • Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
  • Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
  • Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

Job Compensation Range

Salary Range:

Preferred Primary Location: NY office

An important note on compensation

The pay range for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed above. If you are applying to this role at a location that is not the preferred primary location, please keep in mind the salary range will vary and may fall outside of what is listed. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.

Flatiron Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.