Lead Platform Engineer: Backend, Infra & Reliability

Carbon Health; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance (employee)

Family health insurance

Remote-first arrangement

Salary in USD

Office access Ankara (ODTÜ Teknokent)

Floating vacation days

Permanent payroll employment

Job summary

Carbon Health is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of our core platform and foundational services in a healthcare setting. You will lead architectural decisions, own infrastructure as code with Terraform, and write code alongside the team.

The role is hands-on and requires experience with JVM languages, gRPC, and AWS microservices. You will mentor engineers and shape scalable, secure systems for patient care.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong experience with microservice architectures on AWS.
• Proficiency in at least one strongly typed JVM language (Java/Kotlin/Scala).
• Hands-on experience with gRPC and service-to-service design.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and queues.
• Relational databases, caching, and search data stores.
• Hands-on infrastructure management with Terraform.
• CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance.
• Production observability, incident response, and RCA experience.
• Ability to lead distributed teams and drive ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical work on building and scaling Carbon Health's core platform and foundational services.
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, scalable backend systems and document trade-offs.
• Shape service communication with gRPC contracts, timeouts, retries, and degradation strategies.
• Design event-driven workflows with idempotent consumers and Saga patterns.
• Own infrastructure as code with Terraform standards and reproducible environments.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, rapid production changes.
• Define SLAs/observability via metrics, logging, tracing, and alerts.
• Lead incident responses and blameless post-mortems for reliability.
• Guide data design across databases, caches, and search stores.
• Ensure security/compliance (access control, encryption, audit trails).
• Mentor engineers through reviews and pairing; promote ownership and continuous improvement.

Skills

Backend architecture

AWS microservices

Java/Kotlin/Scala

gRPC

Event-driven

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Carbon Health is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of our core platform and foundational services in a healthcare setting. You will lead architectural decisions, own infrastructure as code with Terraform, and write code alongside the team.

The role is hands-on and requires experience with JVM languages, gRPC, and AWS microservices. You will mentor engineers and shape scalable, secure systems for patient care.