Software Engineer - Backend Services

Software Engineer - Backend Services

Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values. 

This position is based out of our headquarters in the Greater Seattle area. #LI-hybrid 

Who We Need 

Truveta is building a diverse and inclusive team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. We are seeking enthusiastic new graduates who are problem-solvers, collaborative teammates, and eager to make a difference in healthcare. If you’re excited about purposeful work, joining a mission-driven team, and launching your career in a supportive environment, Truveta could be the perfect place to start. 

This Opportunity 

We are seeking engineers who: 

Key Qualifications

• You have 3+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on experience building backend services, production systems, or platform infrastructure.
• You have contributed to the design, development, deployment, debugging, and operation of backend services in production, and you understand what it takes to keep services reliable after launch.
• You bring strong Python backend engineering experience, including async programming, testing, packaging, API design, and maintainable service architecture.
• You are comfortable using modern Python tooling such as uv, ruff, and ty to build clean, reliable, and maintainable services. 
• You think beyond implementation and care about production operations, including observability, reliability, incident-aware development, debugging distributed systems, and deployment troubleshooting.
• You build secure services by default, with experience in secure service design, secrets handling, token hygiene, dependency scanning, CVE triage, OWASP-aligned practices, and security patching within SLA.
• You have built or contributed to backend service integrations with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent, with attention to reliability, security, latency, error handling, and maintainability.
• You have practical exposure to agentic AI frameworks or interoperability protocols such as LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, or A2A, and understand how these patterns support tool orchestration, service integration, and AI workflow design.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud-native platform foundations such as Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform; AKS and Azure Pipelines experience is preferred.
• You understand the importance of responsible artifact and dependency management, with exposure to systems such as JFrog, Docker/PyPI proxying, GPU artifact mirroring, or similar workflows.
• You have a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Why Truveta? 

Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together. 

We Offer: 

• Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage 
• Great benefits package 
• Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans 
• 401K plan 
• Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning 
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off 
• Generous parental leave 
• Regular team activities (virtual and in-person) 
• The base pay for this position is $110,000 to $145,000. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options. 

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here. 

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. 

Please note that all applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer as we are unable to sponsor work visas or permits (e.g., F‑1 OPT, H‑1B) at this time. We appreciate your interest in the position and encourage you to explore future opportunities with us.