Senior Platform Engineer
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Role Details
Company: US-headquartered HealthTech SaaS business
Location: New York City, New York
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 3–4 days per week in the office
Salary: $230,000–$300,000
Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in platform or infrastructure engineering
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers supported
Tech Stack: AWS, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Python, TypeScript, CI/CD, DevOps, Observability, Cloud Security, and AI/LLM Infrastructure.
About the Opportunity
The client is building an AI-powered healthcare platform that automates clinical documentation review and compliance workflows. They are looking for their first dedicated Platform Engineer to build and scale production infrastructure, establish the platform roadmap, and support growing AI workloads.
This is a high-ownership role reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, with significant autonomy to shape infrastructure strategy, security, reliability, and cloud cost optimisation.
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
Strong hands-on AWS experience and infrastructure-as-code expertise.
Production-level Python and TypeScript proficiency.
Experience owning production infrastructure or building platform capabilities at an early-stage startup.
Ability to work autonomously, define technical roadmaps, and make architectural decisions.
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
HealthTech, FinTech, or other regulated-industry experience.
Familiarity with HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.
Experience with LLM infrastructure, cloud cost optimisation, SSO, or identity providers such as Okta.
Background combining large technology companies with early-stage startups.
Experience mentoring engineers or leading a small team.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, and office-provided dinners
Founding platform role with autonomy to define the roadmap
Interview Process
Candidate submission and initial screening
Technical assessment
VP of Engineering interview
Final onsite: system design, product demo, and values interview
Offer and hiring
🌍 Remote from anywhere in the globe
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.
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