Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Imaging, Remote

Subtle Medical, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Stock options

Medical/Dental/Vision

Disability + Life Insurance

Parental Leave

401k

Job summary

Subtle Medical is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is focused on building, operating, and scaling the backend services and platform systems that power our AI-driven medical imaging products.

You will contribute directly to backend service development and manage the cloud infrastructure and runtime environment that supports them, with emphasis on enterprise-scale, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and operating backend services in production environments.
• Strong ownership of distributed systems and reliability.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and cloud-native systems across a distributed edge-cloud architecture.
• Develop and operate on-prem gateway/edge systems that integrate with imaging devices.
• Drive architecture decisions for distributed, event-driven architectures with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
• Own, operate, and evolve containerized and batch-based cloud workloads (AWS Batch, Docker, GPU-enabled jobs).
• Contribute to deployment automation, including infrastructure as code (OpenTofu/Terragrunt) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Support production operations, monitoring, and incident response with an automation-first mindset.
• Debug complex production issues across distributed systems and collaborate with customer success teams.

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Distributed systems

Production mindset

AWS

Relational/NoSQL databases

Monitoring/incident response

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

OpenTofu/Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

AWS Batch

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Job description

Subtle Medical is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is focused on building, operating, and scaling the backend services and platform systems that power our AI-driven medical imaging products.

You will contribute directly to backend service development and manage the cloud infrastructure and runtime environment that supports them, with emphasis on enterprise-scale, reliability, and security.