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Senior Software Engineer

Job Locations US-Remote
ID 2026-18240
Category
Engineering/IT
Position Type
Full-Time

Overview

Cotiviti is a leading solutions and analytics company that leverages unparalleled clinical and financial datasets to deliver deep insight into the performance of the healthcare system. These insights uncover new opportunities for healthcare organizations to collaborate to improve their financial performance, reduce inefficiency, and improve healthcare quality. The Sr Software Engineer will play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing large‑scale analytics platform running on AWS. The role focuses on implementing distributed data processing, orchestration of workloads, and high‑performance query execution using technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Trino, Airflow.

Responsibilities

  • Support and enhance existing software modules for the Cotiviti product suite
  • Design, document, and implement new features and components
  • Explore and enhance knowledge on new technologies, provide suggestions for improving and optimizing existing design and architecture
  • contribute to a culture of technical excellence by performing code reviews and mentoring junior developers
  • Develop scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient solutions using core AWS services such as S3, EMR, MSK, MWAA, EKS, etc.
  • Design, implement and optimize distributed data processing pipelines using Kafka, Spark and Airflow, ensuring reliability, observability, and fault tolerance
  • Manage and optimize Apache Hudi datasets, including table design, partitioning, indexing, and incremental processing
  • Develop high‑performance analytical workloads using Trino and Hudi
  • Monitor and maintain production environments, troubleshoot and fix issues reported by clients or found internally

 

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of Cotiviti and requirements of the job change. 

Qualifications

  • BS or MS Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on cloud‑based analytics or distributed systems
  • Experience designing and operating large‑scale data pipelines on analytics platforms
  • Proficiency working with ETL processing on large datasets
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java for building data and platform components
  • Strong SQL skills and understanding of data modeling, partitioning, and query optimization
  • Advanced knowledge and experience of cloud processing technologies like Kafka, Spark, Airflow
  • 3+ years’ experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, especially those used in data engineering and analytics
  • Experience with Docker and containerized application development
  • Extended experience with Source Code Management (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitLab)
  • Strong analytical skills, problem‑solving abilities and a passion for building high‑quality systems

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with multi-datacenter F5 deployments and global traffic management.
  • Familiarity with firewall and security platforms (Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5 AFM).
  • Experience with certificate lifecycle management platforms (e.g., AppViewX).
  • Competency in automation scripting (Python, Bash, and nice to have Ansible).

Cognitive/Mental Requirements:

  • Communicating with others to exchange information.
  • Problem-solving and thinking critically.
  • Completing tasks independently.
  • Interpreting data.
  • Making timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
  • Maintaining focus.
  • Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
  • Learning new tasks and completing tasks in situations that have a speed or productivity quota.
  • Remembering and adhering to processes and protocols.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
  • Communicating with others to exchange information.
  • Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
  • Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
  • No adverse environmental conditions expected.
  • Must be able to provide high-speed internet access/connectivity and office setup and maintenance.
  • Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area.

Base compensation ranges from $105,000 to $120,000 per year. Specific offers are determined by various factors, such as experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs. This role is eligible for discretionary bonus consideration.

 

Cotiviti offers team members a competitive benefits package to address a wide range of personal and family needs, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage, 401(k) savings plans, paid family leave, 9 paid holidays per year, and 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti. For information about our benefits package, please refer to our Careers page.

 

Since this job will be based remotely, all interviews will be conducted virtually.

 

Date of posting:2/04/2026

Applications are assessed on a rolling basis. We anticipate that the application window will close on 3/14/2026, but the application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

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Cotiviti is an equal employment opportunity employer. Cotiviti recruits, hires and promotes individuals based on their qualifications for a specific job. Selection of employees is made without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age, religion, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic carrier status, military service, veteran status, uniformed service member status, disability, or any other category of class protected by federal, state or local laws. All employment decisions and personnel actions, such as hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination, are and will continue to be administered in accordance with, and to further the principle of, equal employment opportunity.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
Cotiviti will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-I.35(c)