Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations

How you will help

HealthVerity is seeking a Staff level Software Engineer responsible for developing core components and services used to shape all of HealthVerity’s products and solutions. Working closely with other members of the R&D team, you will be in charge of implementation and design of our internal developer platform to empower our engineers to work most effectively.

What you will do

• Develop scalable and reliable AWS infrastructure solutions using IaC.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Own monitoring solutions to track system performance and proactively address issues.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and industry standards.
• Promote best practices and knowledge sharing amongst the R&D team.
• Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and processes.
• Lead efforts in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues, including performance bottlenecks, outages, and configuration errors.
• Continuously assess and refine engineering practices to enhance efficiency, reduce deployment times, and improve overall system reliability.

How success will be defined 

• Ability to naturally derive systems design from complex problem statements
• Ability to understand what makes sophisticated systems successful and maintainable at scale
• Understanding the difference between well and poorly designed systems with a strong drive towards addressing the problems rather than run away
• Ability to design effective, scalable, modular architectures independently
• Expertise at identifying bottlenecks and areas for efficiency improvement
• Engaging cross functional teams to arrive at solutions
• Understanding how to effectively leverage cloud technologies to form solution
• Successful at evaluation and implementation of new tools to gain operational efficiencies
• Making security a priority
   

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years of experience with AWS
• 8+ years Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development (CDK + CloudFormation preferred)
• 2+ years of software system design / architecture
• 6+ years of experience developing with Python and/or TypeScript
• Seasoned experience with DevOps practices

Desired skills and experience

• Familiarity with strict security compliance programs such as FedRAMP, HITRUST, etc.
• Ability to lead incident management and disaster recovery events

Base salary for the role is commensurate with experience and can range between $70,000 - 220,000 + annual bonus opportunity.