Senior Platform Engineer — Remote, Scalable Infra & Security

CAN; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CAN Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Palo Alto or remote to design and scale CareOS infrastructure that underpins hospitals, payers, devices, and patients. You will own reliability, security, and performance across a distributed data platform responsible for real care outcomes.

You will mentor engineers, enforce SLOs, and collaborate with product and clinical teams to embed privacy-by-design and robust security practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or site-reliability engineering.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience designing distributed systems that handle sensitive data at scale.
• Strong grasp of networking, security, and data residency concerns in regulated industries.
• Excellent written communication — you document decisions and write clear runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate the distributed infrastructure underpinning CareOS, including data ingestion, event streaming, and multi-tenant API layers.
• Define and enforce reliability engineering practices: SLOs, alerting, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Collaborate with product and clinical engineers to make privacy-by-design a platform primitive rather than an afterthought.
• Drive infrastructure security posture, working closely with the Trust team on HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 controls.
• Mentor engineers across the org on platform patterns, on-call discipline, and production hygiene.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site reliability engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Distributed systems design

Networking & security

HIPAA/SOC2 awareness

Documentation / runbooks

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

CAN Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Palo Alto or remote to design and scale CareOS infrastructure that underpins hospitals, payers, devices, and patients. You will own reliability, security, and performance across a distributed data platform responsible for real care outcomes.

You will mentor engineers, enforce SLOs, and collaborate with product and clinical teams to embed privacy-by-design and robust security practices across the stack.