Staff Platform Engineer
Build and scale the healthcare AI platform’s infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE practices to ensure reliability, security, and compliance for a modern cloud stack.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of software platform and infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years at Staff or Principal level (or equivalent impact)
- Deep expertise in AWS (ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM, networking, security controls)
- Strong hands-on experience with containerization, designing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar) and GitOps workflows
- Production ownership mindset — you've owned SRE-level reliability (SLOs/SLIs, incident management, runbooks, post-mortems)
- Expertise in observability stacks (Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK/Kibana, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of security engineering principles — secrets management, zero-trust networking, Okta, IAM policies, encryption at rest/in-transit.
- Ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and a streamlined integration experience for users.
- Experience in designing and building platforms, data processing, data warehousing, and integrated ML tooling.
- Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture) to ensure platform components meet the needs of the business.
Nice to have
- Experience in a regulated industry (healthcare, fintech, or similar) with working knowledge of compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST)
- Experience with data platform infrastructure — data pipelines, ETL orchestration (Step Functions, Glue, Airflow)
- Background in platform-as-a-product thinking — developer experience, internal tooling, self-service platforms
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure tooling or published technical writing
Full description
Opportunity Overview:
This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance.
Role Overview:
We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to serve as the technical backbone of our Engineering organization. You'll own the technical strategy, and delivery of our platform — spanning architecture, DevOps, SRE, security, Dev-ex.
This is a hands-on staff level role: you'll set technical direction, drive cross-team alignment, and be the senior escalation point for platform challenges.
What you’ll do:
- Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across all environments.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership for platform components, Influence the technical strategy and architecture of our cloud platform, from CI/CD pipelines to observability and incident response.
- Design and implement platform components and reusable integration patterns that minimize custom development efforts, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure that integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems
- Partner closely with Architecture, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to deliver cohesive platform solutions
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, and solutions architects to understand integration needs and ensure the platform meets current and future business requirements.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for infrastructure and platform incidents
- Establish frameworks for: AI governance and compliance. Observability of systems. Traceability of decisions and outputs. Ensure enterprise readiness with security, auditability, and reliability in production environments.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure all platform components and integrations comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations and adhere to industry best practices for data security.
ISMS roles and responsibilities
- Good knowledge of Information practices.
- Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
- Ensuring the team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
- Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.