Staff Platform Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance.

What you’ll do:

• Platform Ownership: Lead the development and enhancement of Cohere’s data and AI platforms, ensuring that it is highly reusable, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Improved Reusability & Scalability: Design and implement platform components and reusable integration patterns that minimize custom development efforts, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure that integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems, payors, and third-party services.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across the development lifecycle, ensuring platform components are designed to meet the demands of high-volume healthcare integrations and are easy to maintain and extend.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Integration Ops, product teams, and solutions architects to understand integration needs and ensure the platform meets current and future business requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure all platform components and integrations comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations and adhere to industry best practices for data security.
• Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, share best practices for building robust, scalable platforms, and lead by example in terms of platform development and design principles.

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years in the software development lifecycle, with significant experience building and maintaining scalable data and AI platforms.
• Deep experience in designing and building platforms that are used by data and ML engineering.  Experience with data processing, data warehousing, and integrated ML tooling is critical.
• Proven expertise in designing and operating large-scale data infrastructure, ideally in cloud-based, distributed environments. 
• Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture) to ensure platform components meet the needs of the business and drive efficiency.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry standards and the ability to ensure that integrations comply with these regulations while being optimized for performance and scalability.
• Commitment to high-quality code, with experience in version control, unit testing, CI/CD practices, and performance monitoring.
• Ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and a streamlined integration experience for users.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hyderabad, Telangana*: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Live System Design Exercise 
4. Technical Discussion 
5. Cross Functional Collaboration Interview

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. 

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.

ISMS roles and responsibilities:

• Good knowledge of Information security
• Oversee specific business processes within the ISMS.
• Responsible to manage the ISMS documentation, conduct risk assessments, and implement risk treatment plans.
• Risk Owners are responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing risks within their areas of responsibility.
• They are also responsible for implementing risk treatment plans.
• Conduct the BCP and other test related to information security continuity along with CISO
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting on the performance of the ISMS.
• Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the CISO.