BlinkRx · 5 days ago
Principal Data Platform Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffBlink Health is the fastest growing healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody. We are seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to define and evolve our real-time and batch data platform built on AWS and Databricks, owning the technical vision for data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving as trusted datasets and APIs.
AppsE-CommerceHealth CareOnline PortalsPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end data platform architecture, spanning streaming ingestion, lakehouse storage, and data/insight serving layers
Architect real-time streaming systems using AWS Kinesis and Spark Structured Streaming to support low-latency use cases
Design stream-to-lakehouse convergence patterns that unify real-time and historical data with strong correctness guarantees
Build and evolve data, metrics, and feature APIs that expose curated datasets for downstream applications and analytics
Establish canonical event schemas and data contracts to support event-driven and API-based consumption
Make deep technical decisions across AWS infrastructure (Kinesis, S3, IAM, networking) and Databricks internals (clusters, jobs, Delta Lake, performance tuning)
Drive platform modernization, retiring legacy tools and patterns in favor of simpler, lakehouse-first designs
Set standards for high-performance SQL and Spark workloads, optimizing for cost, latency, and scale
Lead complex platform initiatives from architecture through production delivery and ongoing reliability
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, shaping best practices for platform design, data quality, and operability
Qualification
Required
Deep expertise in real-time and distributed data systems, including AWS Kinesis and Spark Structured Streaming
Strong command of Databricks on AWS (Delta Lake, clusters, jobs) and core AWS services (S3, IAM, networking)
Proven experience designing data-serving architectures and APIs for analytics, metrics, and feature consumption
Advanced Python and SQL skills for building scalable, high-performance data pipelines
Demonstrated ability to design idempotent, replayable, and observable data platforms at scale
Company
BlinkRx
BlinkRx is a prescription access platform that connects patients to branded medications, ensuring transparent pricing and home delivery.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$315MKey Investors
1789 CapitalSuRo Capital8VC
2024-11-16Series D· $140M
2020-10-27Series Unknown· $10M
2017-04-12Series B· $90M
Leadership Team
Geoffrey Chaiken
Founder & CEO
Matthew Chaiken
Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-06
2025-12-11
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