Sr. Platform Engineer (Infra Pod)

Responsibilities

• Own the shared platform layer across the Patient Care Application, AWS, vendor integrations, Postgres, Snowflake, GitHub, CI/CD, and other critical systems.
• Design and improve scalable, reliable, secure cloud infrastructure and establish reusable engineering patterns and conventions.
• Build core Ruby on Rails services for authorization/RBAC, jobs and queues, deployments, integrations, and other shared capabilities.
• Operate foundational platform, IAM, HIE, EMR, and integration infrastructure beneath product teams.
• Improve developer experience by removing infrastructure bottlenecks and creating reliable self-service workflows.
• Support scale across engineering teams, products, integrations, and infrastructure while troubleshooting production systems and improving resilience.
• Partner with product and engineering teams and set technical standards and architectural conventions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience as a high-performing individual contributor building and operating production backend systems.
• Deep Ruby on Rails expertise across application and data layers, including hands-on development and maintenance of core backend services.
• Strong relational database skills in data modeling, query optimization, query plans, slow-query and N+1 remediation, and indexing.
• Experience building and operating platform capabilities such as authentication/RBAC, jobs and queues, CI/CD, deployments, integrations, and shared services.
• Ability to work across application and infrastructure layers, either as an application engineer comfortable with infrastructure or a cloud/platform engineer willing to work deeply in Rails.
• Proven experience with major Rails upgrades, database migrations, zero-downtime schema changes, large-scale data backfills, dependency upgrades, and security remediation.
• Experience maintaining current production dependencies and packages through ongoing upgrades.
• Strong systems thinking, technical judgment, ownership, execution, pragmatic problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
• AWS and Terraform experience are a plus but are not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary of $180,000-$220,000 plus equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA/FSA and a company HSA contribution.
• Fully remote/remote-first work with equipment and a $100 per month home office stipend.
• Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• 100% company-paid life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• Backup childcare, caregiver concierge, and financial guidance resources.
• Employment is contingent on a pre-employment background check, and Pair Team participates in E-Verify.