Staff Platform Engineer — AI Health Infra, Remote

Citizen Health; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote-first work environment

Work-from-anywhere 30 days per year

Team offsites

Job summary

Citizen Health is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the cloud platform, deployment systems, and reliability practices that let our teams ship AI‑driven features safely at speed. You will partner with AI, web, mobile, and data engineering to keep our platform performant, secure, and compliant with healthcare standards.

You will likely be the first dedicated infrastructure hire and will build the platform engineering function from the ground up — owning everything from Terraform to on‑call

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software / infrastructure engineering experience; 4+ years in a senior IC or technical leadership role on a Platform, SRE, or DevOps team.
• Deep expertise running production systems on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), and modern CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker, etc.).
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript — you build tooling, not just configure it.

Responsibilities

• Platform & infrastructure strategy — set direction for agentic platform and cost-efficient scaling.
• Reliability & observability — define SLOs, build observability, and drive incident response.
• CI/CD & developer experience — own deployment pipeline end-to-end and reduce friction for dozens of releases daily.
• Inference cost & capacity management — optimize model serving and compute capacity; manage vendor contracts.
• Security & compliance — maintain HIPAA/SOC 2 alignment and secure tool‑use pipelines.
• Cross-functional partnership — translate platform needs into roadmaps and mentor engineers.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD tooling

Go/Python/TypeScript

Production scale

Security fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Spinnaker

Job description

Citizen Health is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the cloud platform, deployment systems, and reliability practices that let our teams ship AI‑driven features safely at speed. You will partner with AI, web, mobile, and data engineering to keep our platform performant, secure, and compliant with healthcare standards.

You will likely be the first dedicated infrastructure hire and will build the platform engineering function from the ground up — owning everything from Terraform to on‑call