Staff Data Platform Engineer

Honor Technology

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually. Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms. Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals.  We are looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.  What are we looking for in a candidate: * You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.  * At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company. * Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing * Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups. * Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions. * Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD. * Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management. * Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments. * Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively * Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value. * Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development * Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship * Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences * A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession. Some, or all, of these are true: * You have experience working with an RPC architecture * You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity * You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns #LI-AN1 Our range reflects the hiring range for this position.  We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company.  Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training. Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program.  Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match. We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.  Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.  We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.   Hiring Salary Range $194,000—$220,000 USD At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role. Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.

Honor Technology

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually. Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms. Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals.  About the role:  We’re looking for Data Scientists to join our team. In this role, you will serve as a versatile generalist data scientist who can help guide our company's adoption of agentic AI development.  As we rapidly integrate new technologies into our platform, practical applied experience in the AI space is a baseline requirement for our team. Building on that foundation, we are looking for a candidate who brings expertise in either Agentic AI OR Optimization Algorithms. About the work: * Leverage data to solve a wide variety of meaningful, business problems using the appropriate level of technical complexity. * Partner closely with Engineering, PM, and Care Operations to collaboratively define strategy and execute against it. * Design and implement robust frameworks and metrics to measure whether data products are functioning as expected and driving business impact.  * Research operational/logistical problems and proactively identify potential solutions. * Lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of descriptive and predictive models. * Champion the use of LLM-driven workflows across the company. Partner with Engineering to design architectures and build production-ready systems that leverage agents in our core product features as well as in tools that drive developer productivity. About you:  * 7+ years of professional experience solving complex business problems, and shipping/maintaining Python in a production environment. * You possess a strong foundation in traditional predictive machine learning (e.g., classification, regression, tree-based models like XGBoost) and know when to use standard models versus LLMs. * Deep professional expertise in at least one of the following two areas: * Optimization: Formulating and solving complex logistical/allocation problems (e.g., linear/integer programming) in a business setting. * Agentic AI: Deep technical depth in building, orchestrating, and establishing best practices for agentic systems (e.g., utilizing LLMs for autonomous decision-making and tool-use). You have concrete experience building agentic workflows that drive business impact. * You set success metrics upfront and proactively investigate how your technical solutions influence overarching business goals.  * Excellent mathematical and statistical foundations, including a degree in a quantitative field (such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Physics) or equivalent professional experience. * You are able to manage product ambiguity, seeking clarity when necessary, to ensure that we are solving the right problem and driving measurable outcomes. * You rapidly iterate and deliver technical solutions that maximize business impact. * Clear and persuasive communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse, non-technical stakeholders. You are accountable end-to-end for the entire project lifecycle. You proactively anticipate and drive resolution for potential issues across dependencies. Bonus points if you have professional experience with:  * Experience designing experiments and applying causal inference methods to rigorously determine business impact. * Experience developing systems to optimize portfolio allocation in a two-sided marketplace (e.g., ideal matches of people needing and providing care, hiring needs, demand forecasting). * Familiarity with modern MLOps practices, cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker), or CI/CD pipelines. * Experience working with sensitive data, including PII or PHI, within a strict, HIPAA-compliant environment. Our range reflects the hiring range for this position.  We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company.  Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training. Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program.  Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match. We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.  Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.  We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.   Hiring Salary Range $194,400—$216,000 USD At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role. Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.

Honor Technology

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually. Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms. Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals.  WHO YOU ARE * You care about building systems that have real-world impact. * You’re creative and curious, and enjoy thinking outside the box. * You thrive in diverse, cross-functional environments, collaborating with design, product, data, and care operations. * You have a builder’s mindset, evolving systems from design through operation. * You ensure the final product across the team is of high quality and the clients benefit from our attention to detail and debugging procedures. * You enjoy sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture. * You’re an excellent, proactive communicator — able to translate complex ideas (both in writing and verbally) into clear, actionable solutions for technical and non-technical partners. * You’re quick to spot inefficiencies in processes across your team and engineering and make actionable steps and recommendations to amend them. WHAT YOU BRING * Strong backend engineering experience, with a track record of building and operating production systems. * Experience designing relational data models and working with databases at scale. * Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and service-oriented architectures. * Experience with API design, distributed systems, and backend performance considerations. * Proficiency in Python or transferable backend experience with a willingness to learn Python. * Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React (Next.js/Vite/etc), Typescript, and Tailwind. * Experience with using AI tooling to assist with productivity in both coding and deployment WHERE YOU’LL WORK You’ll work on core services that power how families find care and how Care Professionals do their work—systems that directly support Honor’s mission every day. You’ll be working with the DemandGen Team  — powering Honor’s public digital experiences and growth channels that help thousands of families find the care they need.  Why you’ll love working with us  * Your work will shape how people discover and receive the care they need. * You’ll solve real, complex problems at the intersection of engineering, operations, and human impact. * You’ll collaborate with thoughtful, mission-driven teammates across engineering, product, design, and operations. * You’ll have ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to grow as both an engineer and a product-minded technologist. #LI-ANI Our range reflects the hiring range for this position.  We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company.  Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training. Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program.  Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match. We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.  Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.  We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.   Hiring Salary Range $194,400—$216,000 USD At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role. Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.