Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform

Candid Health; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

Candid Health is seeking an Engineering Leader in San Francisco, CA, to support their Platform and Infrastructure teams. This role involves overseeing critical engineering practices and leading teams focused on scalable architecture. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across departments to align product strategy. Ideal candidates will have over 6 years in engineering leadership and experience in building distributed systems. The starting salary range is $225,000 to $322,000 USD, with potential equity compensation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position.
• Track record of leading teams to build scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Demonstrated excellence in technical decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering practice, responsible for critical services and features.
• Lead teams in planning and prioritization to deliver impactful results.
• Support teams in achieving a high level of technical quality.

Skills

Software Engineering Leadership

Scalable Systems

Technical Decision Making

Data Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Clear Communication

Mentoring

Education

B.S. or B.A in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math

Job description

The Role

At Candid Health, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to support and enable our core Platform and Infrastructure teams in planning, executing, and delivering the Candid platform to our healthcare provider customers who rely on it for mission‑critical financial and operational workflows.

This hire will report directly to our Head of Engineering, Jason Rosenfeld, and work closely with our Founders and Leadership team. Your scope of ownership will encompass Candid's scalability, reliability, application performance, data pipelines, developer experience, load testing, and AI tooling strategy.

The teams rolling up to you are responsible for building and maintaining key infrastructure components of a complex and evolving architecture – their mandate is to uphold best‑in‑class quality, durability, and performance standards for the Candid platform. You will be responsible for guiding and collaborating with skilled engineers and tech leads, fostering their growth and ensuring they contribute effectively.

This role involves deeply cross‑functional teamwork. Collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams will be crucial as you help define and execute our long‑term product strategy. You will also partner closely with security, data privacy, and compliance teams to keep our customer data safe and secure, ensure disaster recovery scenarios, implement internal controls, etc.

To start, you'll manage at least 3 distinct teams:

1. Production Infrastructure: run our compute, networking, observability, data storage, and auth infrastructure

2. Developer Infrastructure: in charge of internal tooling, dev productivity, AI tooling, testing infra, languages + libraries, and CI/CD systems

3. Data Engineering: own data streaming, eventing and pub/sub infra, data warehouse, and data reporting infra.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a steward of results and deliver outcomes: Leveraging an expansive breadth of ownership for the priorities of both our teams and customers, you will have critical influence on balancing competing needs and managing tradeoffs.

• Oversee and lead implementation: Support your team in executing against the technical vision. Scoping projects and reviewing plans are a leveraged use of your time to achieve our collective vision. You’ll also become familiar with our codebase and drive best practices for design, delivery and collaboration across multiple organizations.

• Manage technical teams: Lead one or more efficient, successful, and motivated teams. Experiment with and implement the team systems that work to achieve your teams’ outcomes. Collaborate with product, leadership, and others within engineering to build Candid’s flagship products. You will influence direction for technical leads and individual contributors.

• Mentor and grow people: Investing in Candid’s growth means investing in the development of the people we hire. In this role you will help define pathways to grow for your team, both in formal performance management and organic opportunities to take on more scope.

• Define technical strategy: Partner with company and product leadership to understand and contribute to critical product components and company strategy. With that in mind, you will be entrusted to design the systems, architecture, and processes to build in order to hit short‑term and long‑term objectives.

Responsibilities

• Owning engineering practice, you are responsible for building and maintaining critical services and features

• Leading teams in planning, prioritization, tracking, through delivery of impactful results

• Supporting teams in achieving and preserving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and developer satisfaction

• Influencing partners and peers to identify obstacles to delivery and improve on our products while eliminating friction and redundancies

• Make data driven decisions on your sphere of ownership to continually improve reliability, performance, scale, and reduce operational load

• Diving deep into software architecture, leveraging domain knowledge to achieve business objectives.

• Recruiting exceptional engineers and managers in collaboration with Candid’s talent acquisition team

• Mentor and coach your direct reports and those around you, working with your peers to create healthy and well‑executing teams that grow with equal velocity to the business

Qualifications

• B.S. or B.A in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.

• 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, as a Senior Manager, or Manager of Managers.

• Track record of successfully leading people and teams to build scalable and reliable distributed systems; including teams focused on Data and Infrastructure engineering.

• Demonstrated excellence in technical decision making; you know the right architecture and patterns to build functional, durable, and maintainable product.

• You know how to manage in multiple directions, including laterally and upward: you know how to advocate for yourself and your team: where to get into the weeds and where to delegate.

• You have successfully interviewed, hired, and mentored product focused engineering teams. You collaborate well with staffing partners and stakeholders through all phases of the hiring lifecycle and are a talent magnet.

• You’re a clear and concise communicator; you enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in‑person and in writing.

• You are based in (or willing to relocate to) one of the following areas: Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA.

Pay Transparency

The estimated starting annual base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $322,000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job‑related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits. Given Candid Health’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.