Senior Software Engineer - Search
Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’ s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.
This position is based out of our headquarters in the Greater Seattle area. #LI-hybrid
Who We Need
Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps to join our growing engineering team. This role is ideal for experienced engineers who have demonstrated success building scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native systems. You will lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure solutions, primarily on Microsoft Azure, while mentoring junior engineers and driving adoption of modern DevOps practices, automation, and observability tools.
Responsibilities- Design, build, and maintain index, query, and search system features utilized to aggregate and analyze health data, including:
- Architecting, implementing, and testing new index and query features
- Optimizing end-to-end index performance
- Planning, architecting, and deploying highly scalable and highly reliable search systems
- Implement relevant compliance controls and conduct thorough security reviews
- Drive observability, reliability, and automation across the infrastructure and platform
- Monitor emerging technology in the search and infrastructure domains, evaluate applicability, and champion adoption where appropriate
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices within the team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (advanced degree a plus)
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including:
- Designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale
- Writing production-quality, efficient, multi-threaded code that runs reliably in cloud environments
- Architecting and implementing search system features (indexing, querying, optimization), including building robust test frameworks
- Reviewing data specifications and handling large-scale data storage and distribution using specialized protocols
- Debugging and resolving complex production issues in distributed systems
- Proven experience with cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices (preferably Azure, though AWS/GCP experience is relevant)
Why Truveta?
Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional, and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.
We Offer:
- Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage
- Great benefits package
- Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans
- 401K plan
- Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning
- Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Generous parental leave
- Regular team activities (virtual and in-person as soon as we are able)
- The base pay for this position is $155,000 to $190,000. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.
Please note that all applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer as we are unable to sponsor work visas or permits (e.g. F-1 OPT, H1-B) at this time. We appreciate your interest in the position and encourage you to explore future opportunities with us.
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What We Do
Truveta is a growing collective of health systems in the US with a mission of Saving Lives with Data. Truveta delivers the most complete, clean, and timely regulatory-grade EHR data for scientifically rigorous research. Truveta is trusted by leading life science, government, health system, academic and research organizations to accelerate adoption of new therapies, improve clinical trials, and enhance patient care.
