Senior Platform Engineer — Identity, APIs & Reliability

Socket.dev; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotal Health in Santa Monica, CA, is seeking a senior platform engineer to own components end to end within the product platform. You will design and operate services, libraries, and schemas that enable rapid product development and scalable customer experiences.

You will collaborate with product engineering, data, and infra teams, making architectural decisions to improve reliability, security, and performance while reducing toil and enabling extension and reuse across teams.

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).
• 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, 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

GCP

Relational databases

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Data modeling

System design

Job description

Pivotal Health in Santa Monica, CA, is seeking a senior platform engineer to own components end to end within the product platform. You will design and operate services, libraries, and schemas that enable rapid product development and scalable customer experiences.

You will collaborate with product engineering, data, and infra teams, making architectural decisions to improve reliability, security, and performance while reducing toil and enabling extension and reuse across teams.