Principal Software Engineer, Data Processing

The Data Platform group in India owns parts of the pipeline that ingests, processes, stores, and serves healthcare data at a scale very few organizations operate at. Patients, doctors, and medical researchers deserve the same engineering rigor that has transformed other industries, and that is the work: correctness under volume, reliability under failure, and speed without cutting the corners that regulated health data does not allow anyone to cut.

What you will do

• Define architecture across ingestion, processing, storage, serving, governance, and observability for the India-owned parts of the platform, aligned with Seattle.
• Set multi-platform technical strategy along with the sequencing that makes it achievable rather than aspirational.
• Remain hands-on where it counts: critical designs, prototypes, deep reviews, and the worst production problems.
• Resolve technical disagreements that span teams and write down the decision and it's reasoning so that it holds afterwards.
• Establish architecture governance that engineers experience as a usefulframework.
• Raise the technical bar of the IDC through hiring, interview calibration, and mentoring of Senior and SDE3 engineers.
• Represent Truveta's engineering thinking to partners, candidates, and the wider technical community.

Key qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 to 16 or more years of professional software engineering experience, with eight considered exceptional candidates.
• Architecture ownership across multiple teams or platforms, with results that are demonstrably durable.
• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed data systems across the full lifecycle, from ingestion through serving.
• Continuing hands-on practice: you still write code and review designs in detail. This is an IC role, not a management role.
• Evidence of technical strategy that was adopted and executed, not only proposed.
• Sound judgment about build versus buy, migration risk, and technical debt at organization scale.
• Ability to influence senior engineering and product leadership across geographies and time zones.

Preferred qualifications

• Healthcare data, clinical informatics, or a comparably regulated domain.
• Experience as the most senior individual contributor at a site or within a platform organization.
• Track record of hiring and calibrating senior engineering talent.
• Prior work on privacy, security, or compliance architecture at scale.