Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

DayDream; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology startup in San Francisco is seeking a Platform Engineer to build reliable and secure systems. You will be responsible for cloud infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates have experience in startup environments and can develop productivity tools for engineering teams. Join a driven team to enhance financial transparency in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience as the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup.
• Ability to build tools that improve productivity for engineers.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure with a pragmatic approach.

Responsibilities

• Own observability and ensure systems are monitored and self-healing.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Help achieve HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.
• Own CI/CD pipelines to facilitate safe and frequent shipping.
• Create complex development and staging environments.
• Set up and manage data infrastructure for product and analytics.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Datadog

Job description

DayDream helps dentists get paid for the work they do. In this $165B market, our product simplifies the complex process of verifying insurance coverage, submitting claims, appealing denials, billing patients, and maintaining clean books. As a result of how complex this process is and how many things get lost in the process, dentists can lose 10-20% of their revenue!

What this leads to is the things patients hate about the American healthcare system: it’s inefficient, unaffordable, and just too d*mn confusing. We work with a lot of dentists and they don’t love it either. Dentists want to treat you, help you, and see you smile.

We believe that by automating parts of revenue cycle management, we increase financial transparency for everyone involved - patients, providers, and help support small business owner dentists across America.

The Role

We are looking for a frontend focused engineer.

The Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who’s obsessed with building fast, reliable, and secure systems—and giving product engineers the tools they need to ship with confidence. You’ll be the backbone of our infra, observability, and deployment pipeline, owning everything from monitoring and alerting to networking, security, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own observability (Datadog) and ensure our systems are monitored, alerting, and self-healing

• Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS + Terraform)

• Help achieve HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance

• Own CI/CD pipelines to help us ship safely and frequently

• Create complex dev/staging environments

• Set up and manage data infra to support product and analytics use cases

Signs You’re a Good Fit

• You've been the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup

• You’ve built tools that made other engineers 10x more productive

• You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure, but you’re pragmatic about tradeoffs

Team

• Anton Lin, Co-Founder, CTO:

  • Formerly co-founded Scout, scaled to $1M ARR before an exit to StockX

  • Built and grew several SaaS businesses to 7 figures in revenue

  • UC Berkeley dropout (3 weeks!)

• Shreyas Parab, Co-Founder, CEO:

  • Formerly first employee at YC W23 startup, Special projects for billionaire Dan Gilbert

  • Started and grew D2C brand to $75k in annual sales, started/sold ed-tech company, Senior Class President at Stanford, student representative on the Board of Trustees

  • Stanford Biomedical Computation

• Our (currently) <5 people engineering team includes former founders, early engineers from Ramp, NSA recruits, Michelin star chefs.