We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
What You'll Do
This role will design and develop data pipeline frameworks and technology in partnership with software engineering teams in New York. Additionally, this role will collaborate with other Flatiron employees across our UK, Germany, and Japan offices, and will work day-to-day with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them. In addition, you will:
- Create new or enhance existing business critical, complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools and automation
- Implement ETL frameworks that ensure our delivered data products meet high standards for quality, reliability, and depth
- Innovate new ways of integrating emerging AI technologies with existing systems
- Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges to help the team scale
- Contribute to shaping the direction of team roadmaps and technology development
- Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure stability, extensibility, and security
- Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in the US, including data sources, security, privacy, information governance requirements, and emerging trends
Who You Are
You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback, and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.
- You're a data engineer with 4-8 years of relevant professional experience
- You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
- You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
- You have experience with agile development environments using object-oriented programming and database languages (e.g. Python, C#, SQL), but are also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
- You have experience working with cloud platforms like AWS and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake
- You act as an expert in your domain area, and as a partner with product teams
- You understand the purpose of "boring" technology (as described in this blog post) and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done
- You can collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience; you have superior communication skills
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn
Extra credit
- You have experience working in healthcare in the United States or exposure to healthcare-related standards
- You hold a Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
- You have experience applying modern AI tools (e.g., LLMs and agentic coding assistants) in software workflows
- You have experience in infrastructure, devops, or security engineering
Where You'll Work
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.
Life at Flatiron
At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:
- Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive compensation package
- 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
- Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
- Mental well-being tools and services
- Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
- Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
- Travel support for safe healthcare services
In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Preferred Primary Location: NY office
The annual pay range reflected above for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed in the job description. Salary ranges for other locations vary from the range reflected above. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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What We Do
Flatiron Health is a healthtech company dedicated to helping cancer centers thrive and deliver better care for patients today and tomorrow. Through clinical and data science, we translate patient experiences into real-world evidence to improve treatment, inform policy, and advance research. Cancer is smart. Together, we can be smarter. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.
Why Work With Us
Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a technology and science community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.
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At Flatiron, attracting and inspiring a diverse team is essential to our success. Our hybrid work approach, built on flexibility and clarity, allows you to choose your office days while optimizing productivity and well-being.














