Data Engineer, Function
Insights and tracking for health assessments and lab tests
Posted today
Insights and tracking for health assessments and lab tests
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to live 100 healthy years.
Role
Who you are
- 1-2+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or cloud-based data orchestration. 1-2+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied research, IF hold a PHD/published research
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP familiarity is a plus)
- Experience building on Databricks and working with distributed processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Dask, or similar)
- Solid understanding of data validation, observability, testing, and production best practices
- Experience with healthcare, imaging, or PHI-sensitive data is a strong plus
- Strong communication and documentation skills; comfortable working across technical teams
- You are an experienced data engineer who enjoys building systems that scale and last.
- You’re comfortable working across a wide range of data types and tools, and you approach complex problems with curiosity and pragmatism.
- You’re collaborative, thoughtful, and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership and care for the people who depend on the data you build. Ideally, you come from data engineering or software background in healthcare, biotech, or other high-trust data environments
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and scale the core data infrastructure that powers Function Health’s imaging, analytics, and AI ecosystems. You’ll work closely with the Data, AI, and R&D teams to orchestrate secure, reliable, and compliant pipelines across a wide range of healthcare data types
- This role focuses on building robust orchestration and cloud-native data systems (Airflow, AWS, Databricks) that support high-volume, heterogeneous datasets — from DICOM imaging to biomarkers, reports, and other structured and unstructured health data. You’ll help ensure that these systems are performant, scalable, and production-ready as our platform and data footprint continue to grow
- You will be working closely with the Data team and AI engineering team and reporting to Radhika Tibrewala
- Design and operate scalable data pipelines and orchestration systems supporting imaging and biomarker data (e.g., Airflow, cloud services, distributed compute platforms)
- Contribute to PHI-safe, compliant data infrastructure aligned with healthcare standards (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.)
- Enhance performance and fault-tolerance across distributed data workflows
- Partner with the data management lead to integrate DICOM and data pipelines into the broader data lake and analytics stack
- Implement robust data validation, observability, and monitoring systems for production pipelines
- Collaborate with data science, ML, and product teams to ensure data reliability and accessibility
- Support automated ingestion, transformation, cataloging, and access patterns for downstream analytics and ML use cases
Our take
With the predominant model of healthcare being routine checkups and care for severe discomfort, chronic disease and health disparity are on the rise in the US. Function Health is a company that promotes a continuous mode of healthcare by removing barriers to lab testing.
Founded by former employees at Google Research, Meta, Fitbit and Tonal, Function Health provides subscribers with new ways to manage their health, opting for preventative measures rather than treatment. It does this by providing members with all-in-one lab testing, with more than 100 different tests available. It quantifies results and insights in an accessible and actionable manner, making caring for your health easier to manage.
Having only come out of stealth in 2023, it's impressive to see Function already secure a substantial Series B round and a 50,000-plus membership base. Its disruptive model of preventative healthcare is clearly turning heads, and it will use its fresh funding to scale its platform to a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2025
$298m
SERIES B
Jun 2024
$53m
SERIES A
Total funding: $354.1m
Company benefits
- Choose your own holidays
- 401k Match
- Health Insurance
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Pranitha Patil
(Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer)Previously studied a Masters in Design Engineering at Harvard. Worked as a Health Strategy Engagement Manager at Accenture and was a Teaching Fellow at Deshpande Foundation.
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