Staff Engineer, Databricks Platform at ModMed, Boca Raton, FL

Staff Engineer, Databricks Platform at ModMed in Boca Raton, FL. Full-time. Apply with swipeandhired.

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary:
We are seeking a hands-on Senior/Staff Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our established Databricks platform on AWS. The platform supports mission-critical data, analytics, and AI workloads built on regulated healthcare data across multiple teams and products.

This is an individual-contributor technical leadership role reporting to the Director of Data Platform Engineering, with no direct reports initially. It is a platform-engineering role—not an application data-engineering, data-science, or MLOps role. You will engineer the shared foundation, guardrails, automation, observability, and self-service capabilities used by Data Engineering, Analytics, ML Engineering, AI Engineering, and MLOps.

Key responsibilities

Databricks platform ownership

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS integration, and security

Reliability, observability, and FinOps

Data and AI platform enablement

Required qualifications

Preferred qualifications

Measures of success

Ownership boundaries
This role owns the Databricks platform and implementation of approved technical controls. Cloud Platform owns enterprise AWS foundations and guardrails. Cybersecurity and Data Governance define policy; data owners approve business access. Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI/ML teams own their code, data products, models, evaluations, and releases. The ML/AI/LLM Operations function owns model promotion, deployment automation, production monitoring, and rollback.

ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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