Sr. Platform Engineer (Infra Pod)

Pair Team

Location: US
Workplace: Remote
Employment: Full Time
Salary: USD 180,000–220,000/yr

Posted 16d ago

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Responsibilities

Own the shared platform layer across the systems we operate, including our Patient Care Application, AWS, Vendor Integrations, Postgres, Snowflake, Github, CI/CD, and other critical systems
Establish reusable patterns and conventions so engineers can interact with unfamiliar infrastructure consistently and confidently
Design and improve cloud infrastructure with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience
Build core application services in Ruby on Rails, including foundational capabilities around authorization/RBAC, jobs and queues, deployments, and integrations
Own foundational infrastructure and services that sit beneath our product teams, including platform, IAM, HIE, EMR, and integration layers
Improve developer experience and engineering velocity by identifying infrastructure bottlenecks and turning manual processes into reliable, self-service workflows
Build for scale, ensuring our platform can support significant growth in engineering teams, products, integrations, and infrastructure without creating operational bottlenecks
Partner closely with product and engineering teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that make their work easier and faster
Set technical standards and architectural conventions that other engineers and teams can build upon
Operate production infrastructure, participating in troubleshooting and improving the reliability and resilience of critical systems

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience as a high-performing individual contributor, building and operating production backend systems
Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails with strong understanding of both application and data layers and hands-on experience building and maintaining core backend services
Strong relational database skills, including data modeling and query optimization: reading query plans, resolving slow queries and N+1s, and getting indexing right
Experience building and operating platform-level capabilities such as authentication/RBAC, jobs and queues, CI/CD, deployments, integrations, and other shared services that enable engineering teams to move independently
Ability to work across the application and infrastructure layers—you’re an application engineer who is comfortable getting into infrastructure, or a cloud/platform engineer who is willing to work deeply in Rails
Proven experience tackling the hard parts of production engineering, such as major Rails upgrades, significant database migrations, zero-downtime schema changes, large-scale data backfills, dependency upgrades, and security remediation
A track record of keeping a production codebase current on its dependency and package upgrades, treating that maintenance as steady, ongoing work
Strong systems thinking and technical judgment, with the ability to establish reusable patterns, conventions, and abstractions that make complex systems easier for other engineers to understand and operate
Builder mindset with a bias toward execution, ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving
Strong collaboration skills, comfortable partnering across engineering, product, and operations

Preferred

AWS and Terraform experience are a plus, but not required

Skills

AWS
Terraform
Ruby on Rails
Postgres
Snowflake
GitHub
CI/CD
IAM
HIE
EMR
RBAC
SQL

Responsibilities

Requirements

Preferred

Skills

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