Remote Principal Platform Engineer – AI & Cloud Infra

RxSense; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

RxSense is building a new cloud platform end-to-end, leading the technical build for a greenfield project that powers next‑gen pharmacy benefits products. You will write Terraform and Helm, shape CI/CD, and harden clusters while partnering with AI and data engineering to ensure analytics workloads are first‑class.

This hands‑on Principal Platform Engineer role focuses on production readiness, platform standards, cost discipline, and observability to enable rapid, secure delivery across services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and operating production platform infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with IaC at scale using Terraform.
• Experience running production Kubernetes end to end (EKS).
• Experience implementing CI/CD with GitHub Actions or similar.
• Strong security posture and least-privilege IAM practices.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure as code foundation across dev, QA, staging, and production.
• Operate EKS clusters end to end with secure hardening.
• Develop a robust, immutable CI/CD pipeline and artifact strategy.
• Maintain a shared Helm chart library for multi-service deployment.
• Define platform conventions and mentor engineers on best practices.
• Partner with AI and data teams to align platform with workloads.
• Demonstrate cost ownership and resource right-sizing across environments.
• Implement observability through structured logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Ensure compliance and security controls are auditable via the platform.

Skills

Backend language proficiency

Mentoring engineers

Excellent communication

Platform ownership

Cloud cost ownership

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

RxSense is building a new cloud platform end-to-end, leading the technical build for a greenfield project that powers next‑gen pharmacy benefits products. You will write Terraform and Helm, shape CI/CD, and harden clusters while partnering with AI and data engineering to ensure analytics workloads are first‑class.

This hands‑on Principal Platform Engineer role focuses on production readiness, platform standards, cost discipline, and observability to enable rapid, secure delivery across services.