Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Building the foundations (automation, guardrails, infrastructure) that let application developers and AI agents ship reliably while ensuring security, stability, and scale for real-time healthcare data exchange.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (hands-on IC)
Builds
Cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and observability platforms for a healthcare interoperability network.
Domain
Healthcare technology / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
AWS production operations, Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and autoscaling, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm), GitOps, Security hardening, Cost visibility/FinOps, Ambiguous problem solving, On-call management
Preferred skills
HIPAA/HITRUST/SOC 2 experience, AI agent operations, Distributed tracing/OpenTelemetry, High-throughput messaging, Internal developer experience
Technologies
AWS, Docker, EKS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Kyverno, Karpenter, KEDA, VPA, Velero, Crossplane, Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, Sumo Logic, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Helm, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
Responsibilities
Scope and prototype ambiguous platform work end-to-end; Build foundations for AI agents in engineering and operations; Maintain security, stability, and scale as traffic grows; Simplify platform tools and patterns; Automate recurring upkeep; Make platform costs understandable; Co-create platform direction; Contribute hands-on to infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability; Participate in on-call and own production incidents; Share knowledge via pairing and design reviews.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic alignment