Senior Platform Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with strong software engineering experience to join a healthcare-focused data, analytics, and advisory organization that partners with life sciences and pharmaceutical companies to help them make better commercial and strategic decisions

The engineer will be focused on building and operating the core data platform that powers large-scale integrations, analytics, and event-driven services.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve multi-stage data pipelines that ingest data from external sources including APIs, direct queries, and file-based feeds into a centralized lake and warehouse.
• Build and maintain event-driven services and ETL workflows that enrich, deduplicate, and validate data at scale.
• Design and enforce data contracts, schemas, and cutover strategies to support safe backfills, corrections, and parity with legacy systems.
• Implement observability across pipelines and jobs, including monitoring, alerting, lineage, and operational runbooks.
• Operate and secure cloud-based data infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Optimize data models and SQL performance for large-scale analytical workloads.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to support downstream integrations, APIs, and user-facing data access.
• Document architecture, standards, and workflows to support a growing and collaborative platform team.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering roles with ownership of production data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience building event-driven or batch data pipelines using Python, Node, or similar languages.
• Deep experience operating AWS-based systems and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience tuning performance in MPP data stores such as Redshift, Snowflake, or equivalent.
• Proven experience delivering reliable, idempotent data pipelines and validating outputs against legacy systems.
• Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments (e.g., healthcare, financial services).
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and audit-readiness best practices (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end and troubleshooting complex production issues

Preferred Experience:

• Workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar.
• Streaming and messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS).
• Data modeling and transformation tools (e.g., dbt).
• Data quality, metadata, and lineage tooling.
• Exposure to real-time enrichment or rules-based processing systems.

Compensation:

• Contract: Long term Assignment with potential for conversion
  • Fully Remote, US based Long term
• Hourly rate: $85/hr - $95/hr depending on experience
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 2/4/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.  

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