Staff Platform Engineer - Healthtech | $210k + Equity

Redox; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote-first culture (US)

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

15+ Holidays

R^Charge sabbatical

401k match

Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits

HSA & FSA

Parental Leave

Redox-issued MacBook

Stock Options

Job summary

Redox is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join our fully remote US team. This senior IC role focuses on building scalable infrastructure for AI-enabled engineering and operations, with ownership of an ambiguous lane from scope to production.

You’ll bring deep cloud and Kubernetes experience, IaC with Terraform/Helm, and a security-minded approach. The base salary ranges from $185,000 to $210,000 per year, with stock options and a strong remote-first benefits package.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud-native infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience running production systems.
• Production Kubernetes expertise, cluster lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code practice (Terraform/Helm) and GitOps delivery.
• Security-minded approach to access, secrets, and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Own an ambiguous lane of platform work end to end: scope it, prototype and productionize.
• Build foundations for AI agents to safely participate in engineering and operations: where they run and how they’re observed.
• Keep security, stability, and scale as baseline as traffic grows, reducing single points of failure.
• Simplify the platform by consolidating tools, vendors, and patterns to make the right thing the easy thing.
• Automate recurring upkeep to reduce manual effort.
• Assist in making platform and AI costs understandable for business decisions.
• Contribute hands-on across infrastructure, CI/CD, containers, and observability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native infra

AWS

Terraform/Helm

GitOps

Tools

EKS

Kyverno

Karpenter

Job description

Staff Platform Engineer - Healthtech | $210k + Equity — Remote

Level & Market Positioning: \"Staff\" platform engineer is a senior IC (individual contributor) track role, typically equivalent to L6/P5 at large tech companies. The $185k–$210k base is competitive for a fully remote, growth-stage healthtech company, though top-of-band Staff SWE roles at FAANG can exceed $250k total comp. The addition of stock options in a scaling healthtech company is meaningful upside.

Skills you'll build — all high-demand:

• AI agent infrastructure and permissioning — an emerging, highly valuable specialty in 2024–2025


• Kubernetes at production scale (EKS, Karpenter, KEDA, Kyverno) — perennially in-demand


• FinOps / cloud cost visibility — a growing discipline with dedicated career paths


• Regulated-industry compliance engineering (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2) — rare and valuable

Culture signals: \"Radical transparency,\" strong written communication culture, and a bias toward ownership all suggest a mature, async-capable remote org — a green flag for autonomous senior engineers. The team is explicitly described as \"highly senior,\" meaning you'll be surrounded by peers rather than mentoring junior staff.

Green flags: Genuine IC role (no forced management track), sabbatical benefit, Day 1 medical, and a focused engineering mission. The AI agents in infrastructure angle is forward-looking and positions this role well for the next 3–5 years of the market.

Watch for: On-call ownership is real — you own incidents on systems you build. Ambiguity tolerance is a stated requirement; if you prefer tightly scoped work, this may feel uncomfortable.

Redox is on a mission to accelerate healthcare's transformation with useful data. The Redox Engine, a flexible interoperability platform, connects and powers real-time healthcare data exchange. With just one connection, data can be orchestrated across a growing network of 12,000+ systems and organizations, including 100+ electronic health record systems (EHRs). Redox processes over 1.2 billion messages per month across our health tech vendor, provider, payer, EHR, and life sciences customers.

We're a fully remote team within the U.S. that operates with radical transparency and a strong bias toward ownership.

Impact on Team

The Platform Team at Redox Engineering builds the foundations that let application developers ship reliably: the automation, guardrails, and infrastructure that power how healthcare data moves securely through our systems.

The platform is entering a new chapter. We're building toward a platform where AI agents take part in engineering, operations, and everyday work, alongside the people who build on it. Getting there means keeping security, stability, and scale as the baseline while traffic grows and agents gain autonomy, making costs knowable to the people who make decisions, and steadily simplifying the platform so the right thing is the easy thing.

We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who is a highly capable, hands-on contributor. You'll pick up an ambiguous lane of work, scope it, prototype and experiment, and then carry it all the way to production-ready code. You'll bring deep cloud and Kubernetes experience and sound judgment, and you'll work with the team to shape and align on where the platform goes next.

Software Platform/Tools: AWS, Docker, EKS; GitHub Actions (CI), ArgoCD (CD), Atlantis; Kyverno, Karpenter, KEDA, VPA, Velero, Crossplane; Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, Sumo Logic, Mimir, OpenTelemetry; Terraform, Helm; Postgres, Redis; Kafka; Node.js/TypeScript and Python services.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own an ambiguous lane of platform work end to end: scope it, prototype and experiment, then turn what works into production-ready code


• Build the foundations that let AI agents safely take part in engineering and operations: where they run, how they're permissioned, and how their actions are observed and audited


• Keep security, stability, and scale as the baseline as traffic grows and agents gain autonomy, partnering with InfoSec to harden the platform and reduce single points of failure


• Simplify the platform over time: consolidate tools, vendors, and patterns so humans and agents can do the right thing because it's the easy thing


• Automate recurring upkeep wherever practical, so necessary maintenance takes less human effort


• Help make platform and AI costs understandable to the people making commercial, operational, and technical decisions


• Co-create the platform's direction with the team and your platform architect: bring informed opinions, calibrate with others, and align your work to where we're headed


• Contribute hands-on across the platform, including infrastructure, CI/CD, container orchestration, and observability. This is an IC role.


• Participate in on-call and own the systems you build, including production incidents


• Share knowledge with a highly senior team of peers through pairing, design reviews, and documentation

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years in cloud-native infrastructure or platform engineering roles, with demonstrable progression in technical scope and impact


• Deep, hands‑on AWS experience running production systems, including networking, IAM, and managed services


• Production Kubernetes expertise, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, node management, and autoscaling — you've operated it, not just deployed it


• Strong infrastructure-as-code practice (Terraform/HCL, Helm) and experience with GitOps-style delivery


• A track record of automating operational work, with the testing and rollback safety that makes speed possible


• A security‑minded approach to access, secrets, and configuration, ideally in a regulated environment


• High output on ambiguous problems: you've taken loosely defined work from prototype to production, and you know when an experiment is ready to harden


• Sound judgment and strong written communication: you write clear proposals with tradeoffs, calibrate with peers, and commit once a direction is set

Nice to Have in Your Background

• Experience in a fully remote, growth-stage, or regulated‑industry company (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2)


• Building or operating AI agents in production, or applying AI to infrastructure and operations work


• Observability depth: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or managed observability platforms


• Networking depth: site-to-site VPNs, IPsec, or high-throughput messaging systems


• Developer enablement work: you've thought about the internal developer experience, not just the ops side


• Cost visibility or FinOps experience in cloud environments

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $185,000 – $210,000 per year.

The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. The actual offer may vary depending on multiple factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to the level of job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, education/certification, and interview assessment.

Redox offers a total rewards package that includes stock options and employee benefits for full-time employees. Benefits & Perks include:

• 100% remote first culture (must be based in the US)


• Unlimited Flexible Time Off


• 15+ Observed Holidays


• Rest & R^Charge days (guaranteed 3-day weekend each month)


• R^Charge: 6 weeks paid sabbatical + stipend


• 401k match — 50% for up to 8% on Day 1


• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits on Day 1


• HSA & FSA, Life, Disability, Medical Travel & Employee Assistance Program


• Paid Parental Leave (16 weeks)


• Productivity Stipend & Wellness Fund


• Redox-issued MacBook


• Virtual and/or in-person Team & Company Events


• Stock Options


• Employee Referral Bonus Program

About Redox

Take a look here

Healthcare organizations and technology vendors connect to Redox once, then authorize what data they send to and receive from partners through a centralized hub. Redox's cloud-based platform is vendor and standards-agnostic and enables the secure and efficient exchange of healthcare data. This approach eradicates the need for point-to-point integrations and accelerates the discovery, adoption, and distribution of patient and provider-facing technology solutions. Learn more at www.redoxengine.com .

Redox is an EEO company and fully supports the diversity of our team. As part of our ongoing work to build more diverse teams, you will be asked to complete a voluntary EEO survey when applying. This survey is anonymous — we cannot link your application record with your survey responses.

Successful candidates must be eligible to be employed in the U.S. and must reside & work in the continental U.S.

Thank you for your interest in Redox!

Is this role truly fully remote, or will I need to visit an office? Redox is 100% remote-first with no office requirement. However, you must reside and work in the continental United States — international or non-US-based candidates are not eligible. What is the salary range for the Staff Platform Engineer position? The base salary range is $185,000–$210,000 per year. The final offer depends on experience, qualifications, and interview assessment. Stock options and a full benefits package are also included. What level of Kubernetes experience is required for this role? Redox requires deep production Kubernetes expertise — specifically cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, node management, and autoscaling. You should have operated Kubernetes at scale, not just deployed it. Does this role involve on-call responsibilities? Yes. You are expected to participate in on-call rotations and own production incidents for the systems you build. What makes this role different from a standard senior platform engineer position? This is a Staff-level IC role focused on building infrastructure for AI agents in engineering and operations — a forward-looking responsibility. You'll own ambiguous, end-to-end platform work and contribute to the platform's strategic direction alongside a highly senior team.

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