A remote DevOps & Infrastructure role at Sword Health.
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Design and evolve Sword’s streaming lakehouse - the foundation that every data consumer in the company depends on.
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Build and operate distributed streaming pipelines that move data at low latency and high reliability.
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Own the durable workflows that coordinate complex data movement across systems.
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Shape the platform’s API surface - the interface producers and consumers use so they never need to touch infrastructure.
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Drive evaluations and integrations with vendor data platforms, sitting inside the architectural trade-offs rather than just consuming the output.
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Contribute to the self-service and agentic layer: interfaces designed to be consumed by humans, systems, and AI agents alike.
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Partner with data engineers and analysts on contracts, governance, and lineage.
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Build and maintain AI-ready data infrastructure that powers ML and AI-driven products across Sword.
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Leverage AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, automate documentation, and raise code quality.
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Work in a regulated environment where audit, compliance, and governance are part of every design.
What you need to have
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Proven experience designing and operating data platforms at scale - warehouse, data lake, or lakehouse architectures in production.
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Hands-on experience with a modern lakehouse table format - Iceberg strongly preferred; Delta Lake or Hudi also welcome. You understand how the format works under the hood: metadata layout, snapshots, manifests, compaction, copy-on-write vs. merge-on-read.
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Clear mental model of catalogs (REST, Polaris, Glue, Unity, Hive) - their trade-offs, and how compute stays detached from storage.
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Exposure to at least one vendor lakehouse or query platform - Snowflake, Starburst, or Databricks — at the level where you can reason about its architecture, not just use its UI.
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Strong experience with a distributed processing engine - Flink strongly preferred; Spark also fine. You can reason about its internals, fine-tune a running job, and debug a pipeline that’s silently degrading.
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Familiarity with durable execution - Temporal, Restate, or similar - or at minimum a solid mental model of what durable execution means and why it matters for data workflows.
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Production experience building and operating APIs (REST or gRPC) at scale - good instincts about contracts, versioning, retries, rate limiting, and observability.
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Solid understanding of Kafka and event-driven architectures (producers/consumers, partitioning, delivery semantics).
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Comfortable in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech, gov) where audit, compliance, and data governance are part of every design.
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Platform mindset: you design for self-service, API-first, and with systems and agents - not only humans - as legitimate consumers.
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Deeper familiarity with open/REST catalogs (Polaris, Nessie, Unity) beyond basic use.
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Observability stack fluency (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
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Prior work on agentic or AI-facing API surfaces, or MCP-style interfaces.
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Experience in HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 environments.
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dbt, DataHub, or data contract tooling exposure.
Mindset and Collaboration
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Service orientation: you build APIs (and increasingly agent-facing tools) that others love to use.
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Reliability-first: failure modes, retries, and observability are part of day-one design.
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Cross-functional: you enjoy working with data engineers, analysts, and ML engineers and understanding their problems.
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Documentation mindset: good APIs come with great docs — and good docs now means machine-readable too.
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Iterative: you ship incrementally and improve based on feedback.
Sword Health
DevOps & Infrastructure
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Sword Health is a digital health company that develops physical therapy programs for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, pelvic health, and injury prevention. The company was founded in 2015 in Portugal by Virgílio Bento and Márcio Colunas. Its services include digital physical therapy with artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into the care model. As of 2024, Sword Health operates internationally, with offices in the United States, Ireland, and Portugal. The company has been valued at $3 billion as of its latest funding round.
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