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# Principal Data Engineer at CodaMetrix

- **Company:** CodaMetrix
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/codametrix/609f3b34-6ea3-42da-be06-3050500df675

## Job description

CodaMetrix is revolutionizing Revenue Cycle Management with its AI-powered autonomous coding solution, a multi-specialty AI-platform that translates clinical information into accurate sets of medical codes. CodaMetrix’s autonomous coding drives efficiency under fee-for-service and value-based care models and supports improved patient care. We are passionate about getting physicians and healthcare providers away from the keyboard and back to clinical care.

## Overview

The Principal Data Engineer is a member of the Data Platform team, reporting to the Director of Machine Learning Engineering and Data. The Data Platform team is responsible for executing the data strategy for the organization, ensuring high-quality external data is ingested into the Lakehouse and realized in powerful insights for internal and external customers, while ensuring ML/AI, BI and customer success teams have the data they need to develop and train their models, build insightful dashboards and design semantic layer. As a Principal Data Engineer (L4), you will serve as a key technical leader for CodaMetrix’s Databricks-based data platform, supporting streaming and batch workloads across 30+ healthcare customers. You will own the platform’s architecture, evolution, and operational excellence, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, disaster recovery, cost optimization, data contracts, and build-vs-buy decisions, while enabling ML Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Product teams and influencing technical standards beyond the immediate team. This role operates with minimal oversight and is expected to influence technical standards beyond the immediate team.

## Responsibilities

- Own the technical strategy and roadmap - Own the vision, architecture, and roadmap for the CodaMetrix data platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, regulatory alignment, and operational excellence. Lead key technology decisions, disaster recovery design, architecture reviews, and data engineering standards across teams.
- Platform Engineering at Scale - Design, build, and maintain scalable streaming and batch data platforms Databricks using PySpark, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Structured Streaming. Own Terraform-based infrastructure across environments, including jobs, catalogs, schemas, permissions, compute policies, volumes, and external locations. Build Jenkins CI/CD workflows for automated testing, tagging, and deployments, while optimizing training pipelines, materialized views, retention policies, and production performance.
- Data Governance & Security - Implement and evolve least-privilege access controls across Databricks using Unity Catalog grants, YAML-driven group policies, and schema-level restrictions. Ensure HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance through PHI masking, audit logging, environment-level data segmentation, user provisioning, compute policies, and cost attribution.
- Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence - Drive platform cost reduction through compute policy tuning, serverless optimization, reserved pools, materialized view improvements, and remediation of underutilized resources. Monitor Databricks/AWS spend (using tools like CloudZero and AWS Cost Explorer), own cost attribution and budgeting, resolve production incidents, and maintain runbooks to ensure platform SLAs for uptime and performance.
- Cross-Functional Enablement & Mentorship - Enable ML, BI, Analytics, DevOps, and customer success and implementation teams with training data pipelines, model-ready datasets, feature store architecture, optimized views, dashboards, Tableau refreshes, infrastructure changes, and tenant onboarding. Mentor engineers through code and design reviews, establish quality standards, and serve as a subject matter expert for data platform engineering across the organization.

## Requirements

Must-Haves

- A degree in Computer Science or a related field (Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D.), or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrable professional experience
- 8+ years of data engineering experience with progressive responsibility
- 5+ years hands-on experience with the Databricks platform (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Structured Streaming, Spark SQL, cluster management, platform administration)
- Expert proficiency in PySpark and Python; working knowledge of Scala
- Expert experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (state management, modular structures, multi-environment deployments, YAML-driven configuration)
- Expert experience with Apache Kafka / AWS MSK (streaming ingestion, SASL/IAM auth, topic management, cluster migrations)
- Deep understanding of medallion/lakehouse architecture patterns (bronze/silver/gold, SCD2, materialized views, slowly changing dimensions)
- Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for data platform deployments
- Expert SQL skills — complex CTEs, window functions, performance optimization of large-scale queries across petabyte-scale datasets
- Strong AWS experience (S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, VPC/Private Link, cross-region replication)
- Demonstrated ability to operate in a HIPAA-regulated environment with PHI handling requirements
- Experience with disaster recovery architecture — cross-region replication, failover procedures, read-only replicas
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, Codex) and agentic workflows to augment design, development, and testing processes.
- Huge Plus: Prior experience working with healthcare data, such as medical claims, electronic health records (EHR), or billing code systems (ICD-10, CPT). Familiarity with healthcare data standards like HL7 or FHIR is highly desirable. Track record of influencing technical direction beyond immediate team — architecture reviews, establishing org-widestandards, technology selection. Strategic ability to make build-vs-buy decisions and evaluate emerging technologies for platform evolution

Location: Boston, MA/Remote - Hybrid Job Type: Full-time, exempt , regular Compensation: 175,000-200,000

What CodaMetrix can offer you: Learn more about our full-time employee benefits and how we take care of our team.

- Health Insurance: We cover 80% of the cost of medical and dental insurance and offer vision insurance
- Retirement: We offer a 401(k) plan that eligible employees can contribute to one month after their first day
- Flexibility: We have a generous Paid Time Off policy, which is managed but not limited, so you can take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate
- Development: We provide annual performance evaluations and prioritize working with employees on what their individual growth looks like
- Recognition: We recognize the outstanding achievements of our team through annual company awards where employees have the opportunity to nominate their peers
- Office Location: A modern open plan workspace located in the bustling Back Bay neighborhood of Boston
- Additional Employer Paid Benefits: We offer employer-paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance

Background Check Notice All candidates will be required to complete a background check upon acceptance of a job offer.

## Equal Employment Opportunity

Our company, as well as our products, are made better because we embrace diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas. CodaMetrix is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Don’t meet every requirement? We invite you to apply anyway. Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At CodaMetrix we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and encourage you to consider joining us.

## About CodaMetrix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CodaMetrix provides an AI-powered autonomous medical coding platform that automates the translation of clinical documentation into accurate billing codes for healthcare providers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B‑II)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Hamid Tabatabaie (President & CEO), evolving from an in‑house solution developed by the physician billing office at Mass General Brigham.

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Healthcare AI, Revenue Cycle Management, Medical Coding
- **Target customers**: B2B – large health systems, hospitals, physician groups, and other healthcare providers
- **Mission**: “Transform healthcare operations with an AI‑Powered Contextual Coding Automation Platform built to improve coding quality and performance” – enabling providers to spend more time on patient care and less on administrative coding.

## Products & Services
- **CMX CARE Platform**: A SaaS platform that ingests clinical data across the EHR, applies the latest payer‑specific guidelines, and automatically outputs the correct billing codes (ICD‑10, CPT, HCPCS, etc.). It creates a longitudinal patient record that supports reimbursement, quality reporting, and research. The platform also includes an Emergency Department (ED) solution for multispecialty coding.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised **$110.65M** (latest Series B‑II of $11.65M closed approximately June 2025)
- **Notable Investors**: SignalFire, Frist Cressey Ventures, Transformation Capital, Mass General Brigham, Martin Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Chosen by health systems representing **$180B in net patient revenue**
  - Claims an average **5:1 ROI over five years** for customers
  - Reduces coding denials by **30%** and manual coding effort by **60%**
  - Launched an ED solution and formed a **Coding Quality Council** (June 2026) to set industry standards for coding accuracy
  - Expanded executive leadership with deep healthcare and AI experience

## Competitive Advantages
- **Provider‑built origin**: The platform was born from the real‑world needs of Mass General Brigham’s physician billing office, giving it deep domain credibility.
- **Contextual coding**: Uses the full patient record (not just isolated notes) to improve accuracy and reduce denials.
- **Multispecialty, multi‑code support**: Covers all service lines and code sets from a single platform.
- **Human‑in‑the‑loop design**: Complex cases are escalated to professional coders, whose feedback continuously trains the AI.
- **Proven ROI**: Demonstrated 5:1 return and 30% reduction in coding costs without adding headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale across health systems**: Expand the platform to more large enterprises, including new departments like the ED.
- **Industry leadership**: Through the Coding Quality Council, drive a transparent, objective framework for measuring coding quality.
- **Autonomous coding future**: Aim for most coding to be fully automated, with human oversight only for exceptional cases.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes transparency, deliberate collaboration, single‑threaded ownership, agility, and radical honesty.
- **Location**: On‑site in a modern open‑plan office in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood (not remote/hybrid).
- **Benefits**:
  - 80% employer‑paid medical/dental, plus vision insurance
  - Employer‑paid life, short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
  - 401(k) plan with eligibility after one month
  - Generous, managed (not limited) PTO
  - Annual performance evaluations and recognition awards
- **Learning**: All new hires complete a 7‑week onboarding program; internships and co‑ops offered.
- **Team**: Approximately 119 employees (as of mid‑2026), with a focus on machine learning and engineering talent.

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