Senior Platform Engineer: Build Product Platform & APIs

Pivotal Health; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotal Health in the United States is seeking a senior platform engineer to own and evolve the core platform services used by product teams. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native components with clear ownership over reliability and data interfaces.

The role focuses on extensible architectures, dependable data flows, and collaboration with product teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions across the reimbursement platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fullstack, backend or platform software engineering.
• Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems; GCP preferred.
• Experience with relational databases and data modeling, including schema evolution in production.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own platform components end to end: Design, build, and operate services, libraries, and schemas within the platform, from design through production, with clear ownership of their reliability and evolution.
• Design for extension and reuse: Build composable abstractions and well-defined interfaces so product teams can extend the platform without forking it or waiting on you.
• Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, and performance as the platform evolves.
• Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
• Reduce toil: Identify repeating patterns across teams and make them composable through better abstractions or new tooling, including AI-assisted tooling where it helps.
• Partner with product teams: Work as an embedded partner to feature teams, unblock delivery, and make sure platform decisions reflect what those teams actually need.

Skills

Python

Cloud-native

SQL Databases

Event-driven

RBAC/Auth

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Kinesis

OIDC/SAML

Job description

Pivotal Health in the United States is seeking a senior platform engineer to own and evolve the core platform services used by product teams. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native components with clear ownership over reliability and data interfaces.

The role focuses on extensible architectures, dependable data flows, and collaboration with product teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions across the reimbursement platform.