Staff Platform Engineer
Core
Build and maintain the technical backbone of the engineering organization, focusing on cloud platform architecture, DevOps, SRE, and security to support healthcare AI and data platforms.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer (hands-on IC with technical leadership)
Builds
Cloud platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and reusable integration patterns for healthcare systems
Domain
Healthcare technology, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS (ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM, networking), containerization, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), GitOps, SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident management), observability (Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK/Kibana), security engineering (secrets management, zero-trust, IAM policies, encryption), platform design, data processing, data warehousing, ML tooling
Preferred skills
Regulated industry experience (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST), data platform infrastructure (ETL orchestration, Step Functions, Glue, Airflow), platform-as-a-product thinking, open-source contributions
Technologies
AWS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, Kibana, Okta
Responsibilities
Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency; provide technical leadership for platform components and architecture; design and implement reusable integration patterns; partner with Architecture, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams; serve as senior escalation point for platform incidents; establish frameworks for AI governance, observability, and traceability; ensure compliance with healthcare security and privacy regulations
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical strategy and cross-team alignment