Software Engineer - Healthcare Integrations

ABOUT US At Sierra, we’re building a platform to enable every company in the world to build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We partner with industry leaders such SoftBank, Uber, Rivian, CLEAR, and Sutter Health. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE TEAM - Our healthcare agents already reach over 50% of U.S. families. We partner with leading health plans, providers, and healthcare platforms to deliver AI agents that handle some of the most sensitive and high stakes conversations in any industry. From helping members understand their benefits to resolving billing questions with empathy, our healthcare agents are transforming how patients and policyholders interact with the healthcare system. - Our healthcare customers include major health insurance networks, nonprofit providers, multi-site primary and urgent care practices, healthcare diagnostics companies, and healthcare financial platforms. - Join us to transform the patient experience across the healthcare system—and help build technology that makes care more accessible, more human and more affordable for everyone. WHAT YOU'LL DO - As a Software Engineer working on Healthcare Interoperability at Sierra, you will design and build the core healthcare integration primitives that enable Sierra agents to safely connect with EHRs and other healthcare systems of record. - Own production integrations with systems such as Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health, eClinicalWorks, MEDITECH, and other healthcare platforms, including FHIR, HL7, APIs, flat files, and customer-specific integration patterns. - Build reusable platform capabilities for healthcare data access, write-back workflows, authentication, authorization, auditability, observability, testing, and deployment across customers. - Partner closely with Agent Engineers to help them design and ship healthcare workflows such as appointment scheduling, patient intake, care navigation, CRM updates, clinical task routing, and other read/write agent actions. - Serve as a technical SME with customers’ EHR, IT, security, and operations teams, translating complex interoperability requirements into clear implementation plans and durable Sierra platform capabilities. - Help define Sierra’s standards for safe healthcare agent actions, including validation, idempotency, permissions, human-in-the-loop review, escalation, and PHI/data privacy safeguards. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including experience operating at or above the level of Senior Software Engineer. - Deep experience shipping production healthcare integrations under HIPAA, security, privacy, and compliance constraints. - Strong technical fluency with healthcare interoperability standards and patterns, including FHIR, HL7, OAuth/SMART-style authorization, patient identity, data mapping, audit logs, and EHR-specific APIs. - Experience building integrations with one or more major EHRs or healthcare platforms, such as Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Heal…