Director of Engineering, Foundations

Atria Health and Research Institute; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent health benefits

OneMedical membership

Fertility & family planning

Preventive health screenings

401k with 4% match

Flexible Time Off

CME/CEU support

Job summary

Atria Health Institute seeks a Director of Engineering to lead Foundations (Platform, DevOps, and Data Eng). You will own the technical strategy, drive reliability and security, and manage a 12-person team including 3 tech leads.

Collaborate with product, data, security, and executives to accelerate delivery of scalable health tech. Lead architectural direction, adopt AI-assisted workflows responsibly, and build repeatable patterns across data pipelines and cloud infrastructure to serve

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership.
• Track record of developing talent and improving team performance.
• Proven ability to lead multiple teams across platform, infrastructure, or data domains.
• Strong systems-design background spanning backend, data, security, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js, GCP, Terraform, Snowflake/dbt.
• Active use of AI tools in workflow with responsible adoption.
• Ability to own outcomes end-to-end in fast-moving environments.
• Strong systems thinking and communication of decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own health, direction, and output of the Foundations group (Platform, DevOps, and Data Eng).
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for multi-team Foundations initiatives from concept through deployment.
• Own the reliability, security, and operational health of platform, data, and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive initiatives from definition through delivery, maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Identify problems proactively and propose solutions without waiting to be asked.
• Serve as primary escalation path into Foundations for the rest of the organization.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Data & Analytics leadership to anticipate infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with product, data, clinical, security, and executive stakeholders to deliver.
• Communicate early when blocked, and unblock teams with colleagues.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows and maintain high architectural standards.

Skills

Leadership

System design

GCP

Terraform

TypeScript/Node.js

AI tooling

Cross-functional leadership

Talent development

Observability

Decision making

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Terraform

Job description

About Atria:

The Atria Health Institute is a membership-based primary and specialty health care practice with a focus on prevention and longevity. We bring together a multidisciplinary team of renowned physicians to provide proactive, preventive, and precision-based care for Atria members and their families. All care, including primary care, advanced screening and diagnostics, urgent care, specialty care, 24/7 home visits, and imaging is included in members’ annual fee.

Our mission is to make healthspan and lifespan equal for all by translating science into medicine in real-time, all while bringing humanity back into health care. Delivering such robust, personalized, and preventive health care is complex and requires a team-wide dedication to excellence.

After successfully opening our flagship Institute in New York in 2022 and expanding to South Florida in 2024, we are now bringing the Atria experience to the West Coast with the launch of our Los Angeles Institute in late spring 2026.

About this role:

Atria is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Foundations group — the Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering teams that the rest of the engineering organization is built on. Foundations exists to accelerate overall engineering throughput via the shared services, infrastructure, and data systems that let product teams ship for members and clinicians without reinventing authentication, caching, EMR data sync, pipelines, or deployments every time. You will own the technical strategy and roadmap across all three teams and be accountable for reliability, security, and delivery across the systems Foundations owns. This role directly manages the 12 member Foundations team, including 3 Tech Leads

Key Responsibilities

Ownership & Execution:

• Own the health, technical direction, and output of the Foundations group (Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering), including the shared services, infrastructure, and data systems the rest of engineering depends on.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for complex, multi-team Foundations initiatives from concept through deployment: EMR integrations, the MySQL-to-Postgres migration, background jobs, feature flags, and data platform enhancements.
• Own the reliability, security, and operational health of platform, data, and cloud infrastructure, including SLOs, capacity planning, on-call rotation management, alerting, and incident response governance.
• Drive initiatives from definition through delivery, maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Identify problems proactively and propose solutions without waiting to be asked.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Serve as the primary escalation and request path into Foundations for the rest of the organization.
• Partner proactively with Product Engineering and Data & Analytics leadership to anticipate infrastructure needs early and build scalable solutions ahead of demand.
• Work cross-functionally with product, data, clinical, security, and executive stakeholders to deliver.
• Communicate early when blocked, working with colleagues to unblock the team.
• Drive and contribute to a culture of direct, constructive feedback.

Craft & Quality:

• Own architectural direction across integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to ensure consistency and reuse across teams.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges, maintaining rigorous design standards for reliability, performance, and security through architecture and design reviews.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows across Foundations; establishing the patterns, tooling, and guardrails that let teams use AI to accelerate delivery safely and consistently.
• Hold a high bar for the work: simple, maintainable, and built to last.
• Use AI tools actively to amplify output and accelerate delivery, and teach others how to do so.

Continuous Improvement

• Establish and promote engineering standards across the group, including architectural patterns, code conventions, and documentation best practices.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development across Foundations, mentoring engineers and Tech Leads to a rising bar.
• Champion observability and telemetry standards (Datadog, Sentry, Mixpanel), and drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements when things break.
• Create structures to enable the team to easily measure what we build.
• Share learnings, workflows, and effective patterns with the team and promote them sharing with one another.
• Raise the standard of the work over time.

Compensation: $230,000 - $290,000

Must-Have:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience managing engineering teams and Tech Leads/managers.
• Track record of developing talent and raising team performance over time.
• Demonstrated track record leading multiple teams across platform, infrastructure, or data domains in production, and driving technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong systems-design background spanning backend infrastructure, platform reliability, data architecture, security/compliance, and cost optimization. Deep enough to lead architecture reviews and earn the technical respect of senior and staff engineers.
• Hands-on familiarity with our stack: TypeScript/Node.js, Google Cloud Platform and Terraform, and enterprise data warehousing and pipelines (Snowflake, dbt).
• Active, fluent use of AI tools in your own workflow, with a clear point of view on how an engineering organization should adopt them responsibly.
• Demonstrated ability to own outcomes end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong systems thinking - ability to see how decisions ripple across users, teams, and products.
• Evidence of developing and supporting a robust culture of feedback - including giving and receiving it.
• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and bring teams along.

Nice-to-Have:

• Prior experience in digital health or other regulated technology sectors (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2, HITRUST).
• Direct experience integrating Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms (e.g., Athena), health data infrastructure, or wearable API ecosystems.
• Experience establishing AI-assisted engineering workflows at a team or organization level.

At Atria, we are proud to offer every member of the Atria team:

• Excellent health and wellness benefits, fully covered by Atria, effective date of hire
• OneMedical membership for employees & dependents, giving access to 24/7 virtual care
• Fertility & family planning
• Company-covered preventive health screenings through partner hospitals (calcium score)
• Fitness Perks, including Wellhub +
• 401k contributions and 4% match starting after 6 months
• Flexible Time Off
• Continuing medical education (CME) and CEU support for professional licensure