Senior Software Engineer, Data
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Sidecar HealthHealth Insurance
MUST BE BASED IN CALIFORNIAFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive salary, bonus opportunity, and equity package
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonSQLDjangoFastAPITerraformDatadogDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with full ownership of production systems
- Strong proficiency in Python (mypy, Pydantic, proper abstractions)
- Strong proficiency in SQL at scale
- Deep experience building and operating distributed data pipelines and event-driven architectures
- Hands-on AWS experience: Lambda, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch, and cost-aware design
- Docker as a first-class practice
- Habitual, fluent use of AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.)
- Observability experience with Datadog or equivalent
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Familiarity with FastAPI, Django, SQLAlchemy, Celery, or Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK) is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and own high-throughput, distributed data pipelines and platform infrastructure from concept through production
- Decompose large, ambiguous initiatives into structured, executable plans that the team can move on in parallel
- Write production-grade Python—strongly typed, well-structured, and built to last
- Optimize SQL at scale including query tuning, data modeling, and execution plan analysis
- Architect across boundaries by defining contracts between frontend, backend services, and infrastructure
- Serve as a technical resource and mentor for junior engineers while partnering with leadership on roadmap and technical decisions
- Instrument systems for observability and monitoring
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