Platform Engineer Lead (Senior/Staff)

ZipRecruiter; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare AI company is seeking a DevOps expert to architect and support a large Kubernetes environment. This role is crucial in enhancing operational excellence and building reliable analytics that drive decision-making. Join a dynamic team that values persistence, ownership, and rapid execution in a fast-paced startup environment. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact on the company's growth trajectory. If you're passionate about technology and eager to contribute to meaningful healthcare solutions, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps practices, especially with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Strong background in programming with Node.js and Python for web services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and support a large Kubernetes environment for applications.
• Act as the go-to person for operational excellence and on-call support.

Skills

Continuous delivery

Infrastructure automation

Observability in AWS

DevOps practices

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Node.js (JavaScript and TypeScript)

Python

Network security

Problem-solving skills

Linux systems debugging

Tools

AWS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

gRPC

Azure

GCP

Turborepo

Mirth Connect

Spark

Job description

Job Description

Our story

We’re a fast growing, Series A stage healthcare AI company building a clinical operating system for MSK practices. We are revenue generating and are looking to carefully expand the team to help us scale to 1,000,000 patients and beyond!

The team is headquartered in NYC with a satellite office in Vancouver, BC. Much of our engineering team is remote - distributed throughout the US and Canada.

We live in Notion docs, Slack channels and Github with weekly meetings over Zoom. Meetings may feature honorary advisors, MedTech execs, and, if we’re lucky, Will’s cat or our Chief Pup Officer.

As Flagler continues to grow, there is a unique opportunity to build the foundations of data and infrastructure to help the product and company reach our full potential. This is where you come in — to design and build reliable, trusted, and timely analytics that accelerate the decision-making process of key product and business functions. You will have a strong impact on the roadmap and growth trajectory of our company.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Tzar

• Architect and support large Kubernetes (K8s) environment powering internal and external applications
• Act as the authoritative figure to enforce practices that improves reliability across the entire stack
• Recommend and implement the proper tools and practices that you believe that the team should follow to support operational excellence

On-call

• You are our go-to person for questions for alerts
• We have limited on-call requirements outside of business hours. You will share on-call responsibilities with all the engineering members with various backgrounds. Therefore you will be responsible for training other members to be able to use the tools that you develop

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in supporting continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and observability in AWS
• Advanced understanding of DevOps practices and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, CI / CD, release management, e2e testing)
• Experience setting up data streaming servers, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ for realtime and asynchronous applications utilizing protocols like gPRC
• Experience in supporting Node (both JavaScript and TypeScript) and Python in web services context
• Deep understanding of network security and the ability to work with an engineering team to keep things secure
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug and optimize Linux systems, networking concepts, and containerization technologies.
• Experience with working with startups

Qualifications

• Experience with other cloud platforms like Azure and GCP (we use them as needed; AWS is our primary cloud service)
• Familiarity with monorepo setup for TypeScript (Turborepo)
• Knowledge of other big data technologies like Spark.
• Ability to use monitoring and profiling tools to measure the impact of codebase changes
• Ability to write readable, testable, and supportable code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js (Express), or Python (Flask, Django, or FastAPI)
• Experience with Mirth Connect integration framework
• Familiarity with HL7 / FHIR / EHRs
• General healthcare tech / software experience

Our values

We spend at least as much time with our co-workers as we do with our closest friends + family; if we intend to do the most important and challenging work of our lives, it’s important that these folks energize us, support us, inspire us, and push us to do our best work.

This is what you can expect of your teammates at Flagler:

• Persistence + ownership of outcomes: We wear many hats and aren’t afraid to run through walls to solve hard problems.
• Personal + professional growth: We push ourselves to learn new things and embrace challenges, even if it means that we sometimes fail.
• Don’t take things personally: We value and react quickly to constructive feedback.
• Speed is our ally: In the fast-paced world of startups, we understand the value of moving swiftly. We thrive on the adrenaline of working rapidly.
• Be Right: We are highly detailed oriented and try to be right, a lot.