Staff Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Spearhead multi-quarter initiatives covering cloud accounts, CI/CD, identity management, and artifact management.

• Establish technical direction for a significant portion of the platform through design documentation and decision records.

• Foster collaboration and consensus among Engineering and Security teams.

• Define reliability metrics through service levels, alerting mechanisms, and on-call strategies.

• Coordinate risky modifications across interconnected systems and securely implement reliability enhancements in production.

• Determine team priorities and advocate for them based on cost and risk analysis.

• Mentor and develop Senior engineers through design reviews and guidance.

• Remain actively engaged with the most critical technical modifications.

• Construct and manage the cloud platform utilized by engineers to safely and swiftly deliver patient- and provider-facing products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, cloud or infrastructure engineering, systems or network administration, site reliability, DevOps, or platform engineering.

• Extensive hands-on experience in designing and managing production cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD (AWS, Kubernetes or similar), utilizing infrastructure as code.

• Proven experience in leading a technical initiative across multiple systems or teams, from concept through to execution.

• Background in designing for reliability and security, encompassing access models, deployment safety, observability, and incident response.

• Skilled in designing Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GitOps) and multi-account AWS organizations, IAM, and cross-account networking.

• Proficient in securing CI/CD processes with federated identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, and software supply chain controls.

• Experience in establishing service level objectives and alerting strategies using tools like New Relic, PagerDuty, or similar.

• Familiarity with build-vs-buy decision-making and vendor assessments, including AI-assisted tools for operational tasks within a regulated environment such as healthcare (HIPAA, SOC 2).

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Ability to influence across teams and with leadership without formal authority.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity while defining milestones and quantifying trade-offs.

• Proficient in clear technical writing for design documents and proposals.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Flexible time off to recharge.

• Hybrid work options available.

• Access to mental and emotional wellness resources.

• 401K plan.

• Comprehensive range of modernized benefits and cultural perks.

• Travel required 2-4 times a year.