Senior Platform Engineer — Identity & API Stack (Remote)

Pivotal Health; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible time off

Company-wide events

Job summary

Pivotal Health, a leader in AI-driven healthcare reimbursement, is seeking engineers who own platform components end to end. You will design, build, and operate services and schemas within the platform, collaborating closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams.

Expect to shape how identity, access, and data flow across products with a strong emphasis on reliability and extensibility. The role emphasizes designing for extension, scalable interactions, and reducing toil while partnering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fullstack, backend or platform software engineering.
• Strong Python skills.
• 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).
• Range to move between domains such as authorization, messaging infrastructure, and data pipelines without needing each to be familiar first.

Responsibilities

• Own platform components end to end: Design, build, and operate services, libraries, and schemas within the platform, from design through production.
• 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, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines.
• Reduce toil: Identify repeating patterns across teams and make them composable through better abstractions or new tooling.
• Partner with product teams: Work as an embedded partner to feature teams, unblock delivery, and reflect team needs in platform decisions.

Skills

Fullstack engineering

Python

Cloud-native systems

Relational databases

Event-driven architectures

RBAC

TypeScript/React

Startup experience

Tools

GCP

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Pivotal Health, a leader in AI-driven healthcare reimbursement, is seeking engineers who own platform components end to end. You will design, build, and operate services and schemas within the platform, collaborating closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams.

Expect to shape how identity, access, and data flow across products with a strong emphasis on reliability and extensibility. The role emphasizes designing for extension, scalable interactions, and reducing toil while partnering