Principal Platform Engineer: Cloud & CI/CD Architect

RxSense

United States

On-site

USD 190,000 - 225,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

RxSense, a healthcare technology company, seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to own the core cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and reliability practices that empower all product teams. This hands-on architect role reports to the VP of Infrastructure Engineering and collaborates with software, AI, security, and finance to build a scalable platform.

You design and operate AWS-based compute, networking, IAM, and Kubernetes; lead observability, cost visibility, and runbooks, and promote best

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent technical experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate the core cloud infrastructure that supports RxSense engineering, including compute, networking, identity and access management, and container orchestration on AWS.
Own the CI/CD platform used across engineering teams, including build pipelines, artifact management, environment promotion, progressive rollout, and rollback.
Build and maintain the observability stack across the organization, including logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and the SLIs and SLOs that define reliable service.
Drive infrastructure as code practices across the organization and manage the Kubernetes clusters, custom controllers, and operators that back production workloads.
Partner with security and compliance to manage secrets, network policy, and access controls appropriate to a regulated healthcare and pharmacy benefits environment.
Design self‑service developer tooling and platform APIs and set the abstractions that let product and AI engineering teams’ provision, deploy, and operate services without handholding.
Own incident response tooling, on‑call practices, and reliability engineering standards, and lead or support major incident response across the platform.
Partner with engineering leadership and finance on infrastructure cost visibility, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
Write documentation, runbooks, and clear interfaces so the platform is adoptable by other engineering teams without handholding.
Participate in code review and promote collaboration and best practices, including simplicity, automation, sound design patterns, test coverage, and reusability.
Work normal day business hours in the Eastern US time zone