StaffPlatformEngineer

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health. By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to be a senior technical voice on a brand-new team building the platform that helps Datavant teams run AI agents safely and reliably. You bring the seniority that comes from designing and operating platforms others have depended on, and the discipline that comes from doing it in regulated environments where audit, identity, and policy are real, not theoretical. You write code daily, prefer shipping the smallest thing that solves the problem to designing the perfect solution that doesn't ship, and build guardrails rather than gates. You partner widely without claiming territory that isn't yours. You believe a platform is only adopted when it makes the secure, observable, governed path the easiest path. You mentor when you're the most senior person in the room, ask questions when you're not, and treat decisions as artifacts that get written down so reviewers can reconstruct the reasoning months later. We practice compound engineering: each platform component we ship is also an investment in how the next one gets built. We work in tight loops (build, evaluate, refine, codify) and treat the patterns we learn as artifacts encoded into tooling, templates, and reusable substrate rather than tribal knowledge. As a Staff Engineer, you set this tempo as much as yo