Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Department: Software Engineering

Opportunity Overview:

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance.

What you’ll do:

• Platform Ownership: Lead the development and enhancement of Cohere’s data and AI platforms, ensuring that it is highly reusable, scalable, and optimized for performance.
• Improved Reusability & Scalability: Design and implement platform components and reusable integration patterns that minimize custom development efforts, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure that integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems, payors, and third-party services.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across the development lifecycle, ensuring platform components are designed to meet the demands of high-volume healthcare integrations and are easy to maintain and extend.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Integration Ops, product teams, and solutions architects to understand integration needs and ensure the platform meets current and future business requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure all platform components and integrations comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations and adhere to industry best practices for data security.
• Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities.
• Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, share best practices for building robust, scalable platforms, and lead by example in terms of platform development and design principles.

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years in the software development lifecycle, with significant experience building and maintaining scalable data and AI platforms.
• Deep experience in designing and building platforms that are used by data and ML engineering.  Experience with data processing, data warehousing, and integrated ML tooling is critical.
• Proven expertise in designing and operating large-scale data infrastructure, ideally in cloud-based, distributed environments. 
• Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture) to ensure platform components meet the needs of the business and drive efficiency.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry standards and the ability to ensure that integrations comply with these regulations while being optimized for performance and scalability.
• Commitment to high-quality code, with experience in version control, unit testing, CI/CD practices, and performance monitoring.
• Ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and a streamlined integration experience for users.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana*: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Live System Design Exercise 
4. Technical Discussion 
5. Cross Functional Collaboration Interview

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.