# Senior Software Engineer, Data Processing

Hiring organization: [Protege](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/protege)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/be4f8c23-6054-4cbe-9771-ef882270335a

Listed on Protege's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes

## Summary

This role owns the data ingestion and processing layer that transforms raw, high-volume multimodal data into clean, AI-ready datasets for a platform connecting data holders with AI teams. It suits backend engineers experienced in large-scale data systems who thrive in building production infrastructure that handles messy data reliably at massive scale.

_Our summary, not Protege's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Pipelines, Python

## Required

- 5+ years building and operating production backend or data systems with real data processing at scale experience
- hands-on experience designing and running large-scale data pipelines
- strong Python programming skills
- experience with distributed data processing
- strong AWS proficiency
- comfort with messy, varied, high-volume data and high ambiguity
- attention to detail without losing speed
- bias to action
- excited to work on a data movement and processing product

## Nice to have

- experience processing medical imaging (DICOM), text, audio or video at scale
- background with sensitive or regulated data (HIPAA, healthcare compliance, PHI)
- experience with streaming systems or workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster)
- GCP and Azure experience
- prior startup experience as founding or early engineer
- familiarity with ML, NLP, LLM systems, embeddings, and fine-tuning

Apply on Protege's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/74a9d6fb-b2de-4110-a775-22605e922110/application