About Cedar
Cedar is a leading healthcare technology company committed to improving the healthcare system. They are seeking a seasoned Software Engineer III to join their Data Integration and Platforms team to build scalable data systems and technologies that enhance data integration and analytics for healthcare providers and product engineers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the evolution of our integration data pipelines from homegrown ETL scripts to a modern, scalable data stack (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake)
- Engineer for scale, improve the performance of our data pipelines to handle the daily processing of tens of millions of records while ensuring high quality and robust observability
- Develop our data platform to serve our most popular products while laying the foundation to enable ease of data onboarding and use for new experiments and use cases
- Collaborate closely with delivery engineering teams on mechanisms to improve the quality, speed and scalability of data integration with healthcare providers
- Apply rigorous software engineering practices to the data domain, including version control, automated testing (unit/integration), CI/CD, and structured logging/observability
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in software design and systems engineering, with some time in teams integrating or using large and complex datasets
- Fluency reading and writing Python code, with particular familiarity in common data processing libraries
- Comfortable with SQL and working with Postgres databases
- Technical familiarity across the data ecosystem: storage, query and ETL orchestration technology; governance and quality; analytics, visualization, and AI/ML pipelines
- Strong self starter initiative, Cedar is a mature startup but successful candidates will still need a strong drive to understand the systems and navigate them to deliver successfully
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
- Familiarity with data engineering tools like dbt, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Dagster, SQL Alchemy, Fivetran, Kafka
- Familiarity with optimizing SQL queries
- Familiarity with Kotlin and Go
- Knowledgeable of data engineering paradigms like ETL, ELT, Medallion Architecture, and Data Mesh and can reason between them
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days--we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
Company Overview
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups that elevates the patient experience. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.cedar.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
Cedar has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 11 in 2025, 9 in 2024, 11 in 2023, 15 in 2022, 15 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA.