Data Platform Engineer

Overview

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building. Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare's greatest needs.

Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Overview: The Staff Software Engineer L5 works with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, has the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.

• Build platform services/API
• Enable pipeline onboarding, configuration, execution, and status reporting
• Develop backend services in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python (FastAPI/Django) with strong testing discipline
• Own runtime patterns on AWS: ECS/EKS, MWAA, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS, including scaling, failure handling, and deployments
• Build and evolve scalable platform abstractions powering mission-critical, high-throughput workloads
• Establish and champion platform-wide engineering standards, conventions, and guardrails
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines to deploy repeatable infrastructure safely across environments
• Drive observability and reliability: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, incident response improvements, and failure-mode analysis
• Partner with data engineering teams to turn one-off solutions into reusable platform components and guardrails
• Adhere to confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other policies, procedures, and requirements in relation to data and services
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon policies and mission statement
• On Call Policy: participate in an on-call rotation to support critical issues, including outside standard business hours, ensuring timely response per defined SLAs

• 8-15 years building production backend/platform systems
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Java + Spring Boot (preferred) and/or Python backend development (FastAPI/Django)
• AWS: ECS/EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS (plus IAM and networking fundamentals)
• Terraform (modules, environment promotion, drift management)
• API design patterns (versioning, auth
  
  N/auth
  
  Z concepts, idempotency keys, rate limiting)
• Operational maturity: observability, incident handling, runbooks, reliability improvements
• Ability to lead through influence and drive cross-team alignment
• Proactive changes

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

• Sedentary work (sitting for long periods)
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force
• Inside environmental conditions
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes

In addition to the base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

The actual base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. At Inovalon, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Inovalon invests in associates to help them stay healthy, save for long-term financial goals, and manage the demands of work and personal commitments. That is why Inovalon offers a valuable benefits package with a wide range of choices to meet associate needs, which may include health insurance, life insurance, company-paid disability, 401k, 18+ days of paid time off, and more.

Base Compensation…