Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Senior Platform Engineer
Location: San Francisco CA
Work Style: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Compensation: $180K$240K base salary equity
Focus: Platform Engineering AWS Infrastructure Developer Experience AI Coding Agents Healthcare AI
About Our Client
Our client is building an AI-native healthcare platform that gives people free private access to AI health guidance and affordable visits with human physicians.
Their production systems already support millions of consultations and the company is scaling quickly across AI healthcare delivery patient experience and clinical operations. The team is building in a high-stakes environment where reliability privacy security and patient safety matter deeply.
This is an opportunity to join a senior engineering team building the infrastructure behind one of the fastest-growing AI healthcare platforms in the market.
About the Role
Our client is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to improve the systems engineers use to build deploy observe and operate production software.
This role owns engineering enablement across the company. Youll build the environments tools workflows infrastructure and standards that help engineers and coding agents understand the codebase make changes validate work and ship safely.
This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys platform engineering developer experience infrastructure automation observability and building systems that make engineering teams faster without sacrificing safety or reliability.
What Youll Do
Improve the reliability and operation of production services running on AWS ECS
Build shared infrastructure service templates and delivery workflows that reduce time from code to production
Improve local development CI testing and deployment workflows
Build self-service tools so engineers can complete routine platform tasks without direct support
Create agent-ready repositories documentation and interfaces that help coding agents complete useful tasks with less supervision
Automate recurring work across service setup dependency changes release checks and incident triage
Build guardrails and feedback loops that make AI-generated code changes easier to validate and safer to ship
Improve logs metrics alerts dashboards and service health visibility for engineering teams
Define practical standards for incident response recovery capacity planning and service reliability
Build security privacy and compliance controls into infrastructure and delivery workflows
Track infrastructure cost and improve efficiency as traffic data and AI workloads grow
Partner with product AI data and security engineers to solve production problems
What Were Looking For
5 years of relevant platform infrastructure DevOps SRE or backend engineering experience
Experience building and operating production systems on AWS
Strong knowledge of containers infrastructure as code CI/CD networking and observability
Experience with container orchestration and automated delivery workflows
Experience improving developer environments CI performance service templates or internal engineering tools
Ability to write software and automation rather than relying on manual procedures
Daily experience with coding agents or AI-assisted development tools
Evidence of building tools context documentation or workflows that make coding agents more reliable
Experience measuring or improving engineering throughput CI time test quality or self-service adoption
Experience diagnosing production incidents and driving follow-up improvements
Strong judgment across reliability security cost and delivery speed
Clear communication skills across engineering teams
Technical Environment
Relevant technologies include:
AWS
ECS and ECR
Terraform and Terragrunt
GitHub Actions
CloudWatch
RDS
DocumentDB
Redis
S3
CloudFront
Application Load Balancers
IAM
Secrets Manager
Python
Shell scripting
Bonus Experience
Experience with AI infrastructure or AI-native engineering workflows
Experience building platform systems in healthcare fintech or another regulated industry
Experience with disaster recovery high-traffic applications or mission-critical infrastructure
Experience improving coding-agent workflows repository context validation loops or automated code review systems
Experience building developer platforms for small senior engineering teams
Why This Opportunity
Join a fast-growing AI healthcare company supporting millions of consultations
Build platform infrastructure where reliability privacy and patient safety matter
Own engineering enablement across a small senior technical team
Improve how both engineers and coding agents build validate and ship software
Work across AWS infrastructure CI/CD observability automation security and developer experience
Help define practical platform standards as the company scales
Step into a high-ownership role with meaningful impact on engineering speed and production reliability
Benefits
$180K$240K base salary
Meaningful equity
Benefits reimbursement
Opportunity to build mission-critical systems in healthcare AI
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a senior platform engineer who loves building infrastructure that makes engineering teams faster safer and more independent.
They have strong AWS and container fundamentals care deeply about reliability and developer experience and are excited by the opportunity to build workflows that help coding agents contribute more effectively to production software.
This person should be comfortable in a high-autonomy environment where application teams own what they ship and platform engineering makes that ownership easier.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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