Principal Software Engineer – Data Platform, Iceberg/Trino

🕒 August 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Innovaccer

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $150M Series E on 2021-12

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Innovaccer is a healthcare technology company dedicated to transforming how healthcare information is utilized and accessed. They provide a comprehensive Health Cloud that aims to accelerate digital transformation for providers, payers, and life sciences companies by offering unified healthcare data and analytics. Innovaccer leverages artificial intelligence to automate tasks, process medical data, and generate insights to improve clinical and financial outcomes. Their solutions focus on integrating and optimizing healthcare systems, promoting value-based care, improving patient engagement, and reducing the administrative burden on healthcare providers. Innovaccer's platform supports various healthcare stakeholders through advanced data activation, analytics, and streamlined workflows, striving to improve healthcare delivery and patient care globally.

📋 Description

• Own the lakehouse reference architecture, including Iceberg table design, Trino cluster topology, catalog service, Spark transform compute, and object-storage layout • Design on-premise replacements for cloud-managed warehouse capabilities, including change-data-capture streams, scheduled tasks, and write-back paths into operational stores • Run proof-of-concept validation of the catalog and query engine at expected data volumes • Define evidence-based triggers for VM-based versus Kubernetes-native operator placement decisions • Set platform-wide standards for table layout, partitioning, file sizing, and Iceberg maintenance, including compaction, snapshot expiry, and orphan-file cleanup • Lead the SQL dialect strategy for porting existing warehouse workloads to Trino and Spark SQL • Mentor senior engineers across data workstreams and review designs • Partner with platform engineering on storage sizing, resource isolation, and lakehouse capacity planning

🎯 Requirements

• B.E., B.Tech., or M.Sc. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field • 12+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale data platforms or distributed systems • Deep hands-on expertise with distributed SQL engines, including Trino/Presto or Spark SQL internals, query planning, and performance engineering • Production experience with Apache Iceberg, or Delta Lake/Hudi with willingness to develop deep Iceberg expertise • Knowledge of Iceberg table specifications, merge-on-read versus copy-on-write, and table maintenance at scale • Working knowledge of Iceberg catalog services, including REST catalogs such as Polaris or Nessie, or Hive Metastore • Working knowledge of S3-compatible object storage • Strong understanding of cloud warehouse internals, including Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift • Professional software development experience with Java and/or Python • Experience delivering data platforms in on-premise, regulated, or air-gapped environments is a strong plus • Healthcare data experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• 20 days of fixed paid time off per year, in addition to company holidays • Generous parental leave • Monetary incentives and company-wide recognition for impact and dedication • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 100% company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance • 100% company-paid basic life insurance • Discounted legal aid • Pet insurance