Data Platform Engineer

Summary

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. CHAI is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable internal platforms, productionize data products, create reliable AI-enabled systems, and collaborate with technical and operational teams across its global organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform services used by 2,000 people in 35 countries
• Build-out and productionize our current data products (workflows, data warehouses, reporting)
• Create AI-enabled systems that are reliable, maintainable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy for internal teams to adopt as we look to significantly scale-up in the next two years
• Collaborate with IT, Operations, and Program teams to ensure tools fit how people actually work, integrate with existing systems, and meet modern security standards

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 3+ years of building and shipping code
• Proven backend and systems engineering skills
• Strong organizational instincts. The ability to understand what teams need, identify what is worth building, and partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders
• Ownership. The ability to take uncertainty and drive towards success
• Genuine commitment to CHAI's mission and the operating realities of a global health organization working in resource-constrained, cross-cultural contexts
• Familiarity with technical tools used at CHAI: DBT, Superset, Javascript, React, Supabase, Python, Typescript, PostgreSQL
• Experience applying agentic tooling to engineering workflows
• The base location is flexible; candidates can be based in any of the geographies that CHAI operates in, subject to work authorization and necessary approvals
• Experience building tools for enterprise workflows (HR, Finance, Legal, Operations, or similar) and dealing with compliance requirements preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 3+ years of building and shipping code
• Proven backend and systems engineering skills
• Strong organizational instincts. The ability to understand what teams need, identify what is worth building, and partner effectively with non-technical stakeholders
• Ownership. The ability to take uncertainty and drive towards success
• Genuine commitment to CHAI's mission and the operating realities of a global health organization working in resource-constrained, cross-cultural contexts
• Familiarity with technical tools used at CHAI: DBT, Superset, Javascript, React, Supabase, Python, Typescript, PostgreSQL
• Experience applying agentic tooling to engineering workflows
• The base location is flexible; candidates can be based in any of the geographies that CHAI operates in, subject to work authorization and necessary approvals

Nice to Haves

• Experience building tools for enterprise workflows (HR, Finance, Legal, Operations, or similar) and dealing with compliance requirements preferred

Benefits

• The base location is flexible; candidates can be based in any of the geographies that CHAI operates in, subject to work authorization and necessary approvals.