Sr. Platform Engineer (Infra Pod)
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Pair TeamHealthcare Technology
Remote (United States)Full-TimeSenior
Salary$180,000 - $220,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLSQLRuby on RailsCI/CDTerraformData modeling
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience as a high-performing individual contributor, building and operating production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Ruby on Rails with strong understanding of both application and data layers.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining core backend services.
- Strong relational database skills, including data modeling and query optimization (query plans, resolving slow queries, indexing).
- Experience building and operating platform-level capabilities such as authentication/RBAC, jobs and queues, CI/CD, deployments, and integrations.
- Proven experience tackling complex production engineering tasks like major Rails upgrades, database migrations, and zero-downtime schema changes.
- Track record of maintaining a production codebase, including ongoing dependency and package upgrades.
- Strong systems thinking and technical judgment with the ability to establish reusable patterns and abstractions.
- Builder mindset with a bias toward execution, ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving.
- Strong collaboration skills, comfortable partnering across engineering, product, and operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the shared platform layer across the systems we operate, including our Patient Care Application, AWS, Vendor Integrations, Postgres, Snowflake, Github, CI/CD, and other critical systems.
- Establish reusable patterns and conventions so engineers can interact with unfamiliar infrastructure consistently and confidently.
- Design and improve cloud infrastructure with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
- Build core application services in Ruby on Rails, including foundational capabilities around authorization/RBAC, jobs and queues, deployments, and integrations.
- Improve developer experience and engineering velocity by identifying infrastructure bottlenecks and turning manual processes into reliable, self-service workflows.
- Set technical standards and architectural conventions that other engineers and teams can build upon.
- Operate production infrastructure, participating in troubleshooting and improving the reliability and resilience of critical systems.
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