Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer

commure; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commure is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team to own the foundational infrastructure and internal developer platform that every other engineering team builds on. You will design, build, and operate end-to-end across cloud, on-prem, and multi-cluster environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, implement critical tooling, and set patterns for teams to follow, enabling rapid, reliable software delivery in healthcare IT environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering roles.
• Experience building internal developer platforms with a strong product mindset (treating developers as customers).
• Experience with public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and managed cloud services.
• Experience with on-prem or hybrid environments and data center / cloud migrations.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience with plus controller-based infrastructure management (Crossplane, Kubernetes operators).
• Experience with service mesh technologies and software-defined networking (SDN).
• Experience with modern release workflows using GitOps and progressive delivery (Argo CD, Flux, Kargo).
• Experience with observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, finance) with HIPAA and SOC 2 obligations.

Responsibilities

• Build out the internal developer platform: golden-path templates, self-serve tooling, local development environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the cloud foundation: GCP, AWS, and/or Azure infrastructure managed as code with Terraform and controller-based provisioning via Kubernetes operators and Crossplane.
• Run the Kubernetes fleet: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling, node management, and multi-cluster patterns. Shape how services are packaged and deployed with Helm.
• Design the traffic and network layer: service mesh, ingress, mTLS, and traffic management (routing, rate limiting, canary, circuit-breaking, RPC).
• Own the release and deployment story with Argo CD. GitOps workflows, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), rollback safety, and environment promotion patterns.
• Own the observability stack: OpenTelemetry based instrumentation, metrics (Prometheus), dashboards (Grafana), distributed tracing, logging, unified alerting, templated dashboard, etc.
• Build out zero-trust access to internal and external systems: VPN, BeyondCorp, short-lived credentials, and on-prem connectivity.
• Partner with Security on secrets management, policy-as-code, and secure-by-default patterns that meet HIPAA and SOC 2 by default.

Skills

Internal developer platform

Public cloud

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Crossplane

GitOps

Argo CD

Observability

Prometheus

Tools

Pulumi

Kubernetes operators

Helm

Crossplane

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Commure is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team to own the foundational infrastructure and internal developer platform that every other engineering team builds on. You will design, build, and operate end-to-end across cloud, on-prem, and multi-cluster environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, implement critical tooling, and set patterns for teams to follow, enabling rapid, reliable software delivery in healthcare IT environments.