Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Remote - Canada Full-time Salary not specified

Company Overview

Function Health is building an AI operating system for health, offering members comprehensive lab testing, imaging, longitudinal data, and guidance from AI and clinical teams. The company recently announced a $298M Series B and is scaling its integrated health platform.

Role

Function is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its data platform. The role focuses on building platform infrastructure that enables subject matter experts and engineers to safely manage data changes through reliable contracts, validation, lineage, CI, and rollback capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Build event-tracking infrastructure for product analytics, experimentation, and feature gates, with schemas enforced at the source.
• Develop Databricks data-processing infrastructure across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, including schema evolution, contract tests, backfills, and monitoring.
• Build ML infrastructure for feature computation and serving, training and evaluation pipelines, and integrating model output into products.
• Develop self-service tools, templates, local development and preview environments, policy-as-code for PHI, alert ownership routing, and progressive deployment gates.

Qualifications

• Experience building internal platforms or infrastructure adopted by other engineers.
• Experience operating production data or ML systems and responding to incidents.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
• Experience designing and evolving interfaces and schemas used by other teams.
• Experience with testing and CI for data or ML systems.
• Typically 8+ years of engineering experience; the company emphasizes demonstrated work over years of experience.

Additional Experience

Experience with declarative pipeline frameworks, streaming, data contracts, lineage, Terraform, feature stores, MLOps, healthcare data, PHI, or HIPAA is an asset.

Benefits and Inclusion

Function offers a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible working hours, and a dynamic work environment. The company is an equal opportunity employer.