Job Description

Data Engineer, Azure Databricks

Department: Research and Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote - Türkiye, or Hybrid - New Delhi

Compensation: $48,000 - $60,000 per year in Istanbul; $36,000 - $42,000 in New Delhi

Surgo Health is a Public Benefit Corporation building the world’s most comprehensive and insightful AI-powered data platform that reveals the why behind people’s behaviors. We uncover the unseen drivers of health - people’s beliefs, barriers, and behaviors - and transform that intelligence into scalable products that enable healthcare organizations to drive impact, reduce costs, and advance inclusion. From improving clinical trial design to optimizing care delivery and public health strategies, our solutions help decision-makers act on what truly shapes health outcomes. By revealing the human side of healthcare, we’re making it more personal, precise, and effective - for everyone.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing R&D Engineering team. If you are excited by the idea of turning data into scientific models and scalable, production-ready systems that support healthcare innovation—this is the role for you.
As part of a collaborative and fast-paced team, you’ll play a key role in supporting our Scientists and Engineers to scale impact across a diverse set of health and behavior datasets and their metadata. You'll help take prototypes and turn them into robust data infrastructure that supports scalable pipelines, analytics, and machine learning operations. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their Data Engineering career who is eager to grow, learn, and make a difference.

What you’ll achieve:

• Productionize Databricks notebooks created by our Scientists
• Create, manage, and enhance data pipelines that support ML and analytics workflows
• Support and collaborate closely with our Head of Engineering
• Improve and maintain our cloud-based data infrastructure on Azure and AWS
• Help support and enforce best practices for data engineering, curation, and notebook development
• Work cross-functionally to ensure data products align with our platform principles and scientific goals
• Build scalable and efficient pipelines that connect raw data and metadata to insights and products
• Help evolve our use of the Databricks platform, and our broader Azure/AWS cloud environments
• Translate Python/SQL/R code from exploration to production-grade
• Be a hands-on partner to Scientists, supporting their work and helping scale their models
• Contribute to shaping our engineering culture and infrastructure as we grow

About you:

• You have a solid foundation in data engineering and/or MLOps and are excited to keep learning
• You have experience with Databricks
• You have experience in Python, R and SQL transformations and data pipeline creation
• You're familiar with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• You have at least 3 years of relevant work experience
• You hold a University degree in Computer Science or a related field
• You communicate well and enjoy being part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team
• You thrive in fast-moving environments where you can take ownership and iterate quickly
• You are fluent in English, both written and spoken
• You’re comfortable working remotely, with at least 50% timezone overlap with US/GMT

Location: This is a Türkiye-based or New Delhi-based role Surgo is headquartered in Washington, DC, but our team is spread across the US, UK, and India

Benefits

• Fantastic, fun and collaborative colleagues; opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare
• Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth
• Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission
• Competitive compensation
• Professional Development opportunities

Surgo Health is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent practices. Compensation packages are based on several factors such as skill set, prior relevant experience, education, certifications, and market considerations. In addition to base compensation, individuals may be eligible for annual performance-based bonuses and equity (if applicable). We aim to pay salaries that are competitive, benchmarked against companies that are similar in stage, size, and market to Surgo Health. Our recruiter may be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant role during the hiring process.

Our hiring philosophy

We hire for passion and core competencies.

We look for problem solvers and lateral thinkers.

We love it if you have done different things with your time.

If you think you are ideal for this position, write to us even if your experience doesn’t match all the requirements listed above.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity PolicySurgo believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes a stronger team and more impactful organization and we are committed to building and developing this team and environment. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, cultures, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation, gender identities and expressions, languages, social class, marital status, religions, veterans status, and disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.