Kairon Health ยท 2 months ago
Principal Engineer, Data & Integrations
New York City (Hybrid)
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $190K/yr
6+ years expKairon Health is building the operating system for value-based care, helping healthcare organizations achieve excellence through data integration. The Principal Engineer will own the data backbone and integrations layer, designing pipelines and frameworks for managing healthcare data from ingestion to analytics.
Health CareInformation ServicesSoftware
Responsibilities
Build the pipelines: design, build, and optimize ETL pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading data from healthcare, CRM, and other third-party systems into Snowflake and downstream applications
Own integrations: Lead connections to EHRs (Athena, eClinicalWorks, etc.), Salesforce, payer feeds, and Microsoft Teams/Azure; manage auth, rate limits, retries, and schema evolution
Model the data: Architect and maintain data models that support both analytics and application layers, ensuring scalability, performance, and data quality
Raise data quality: Implement tests and observability to prevent regressions and ensure trust
Advance enrichment: develop next-generation ETL capabilities leveraging LLM-based data enrichment, unstructured data parsing, and automated mapping
Partner across teams: Collaborate with product, analytics, and AI to power real-time metrics, dashboards, and in-product intelligence
Build for compliance: Implement HIPAA-aligned flows (encryption, least-privilege access, auditing) and support SOC 2 controls across logging, access, and change management
Set standards & mentor: Establish patterns, docs, and conventions; mentor future hires and raise the engineering bar
Qualification
Required
6+ years building production data systems (pipelines, integrations, distributed services) with measurable reliability
Strong Python and SQL; experience with Snowflake and/or dbt
Hands-on with orchestration, monitoring, and incident response
Deep understanding of API design and systems integration; comfortable with FHIR/HL7v2, file-based feeds (SFTP), and webhook patterns
Practical security mindset (encryption at rest/in transit, key management, IAM); experience in HIPAA or similar regulated environments
Excellent communication with ability to translate between product needs and technical designs
Preferred
Prior experience working with EHR, claims, or healthcare data
Experience with Salesforce APIs, HL7/FHIR, or Microsoft Teams/Azure integrations
Experience implementing LLM-enhanced data processing (e.g., text extraction, entity linking, or summarization)
Familiarity with modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt)
Previous work in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Kairon Health
Kairon Health offers an AI-driven platform to optimize healthcare practice operations and improve workflow efficiency.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Nick Bartz
Co-Founder & CEO
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