Senior Platform Engineer

Design and evolve platform architecture: Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.

Build software that powers the platform: Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.

Own infrastructure as code and automation: Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.

Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.

Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.

Secure the platform and toolchain: Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.

Reduce toil and improve leverage: Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.

Partner with engineering teams: Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.

5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.

Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.

Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)

Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)

Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

Experience with databases and data infrastructure

Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)

Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully

Experience operating in startup or scaling environments

Prior SRE experience or helping teams mature toward SRE practices

Serverless or managed cloud architectures

Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments

Building automation or AI-driven tooling to reduce operational toil

Previous experience in FinTech, HealthTech or highly regulated industries.

We’re a collaborative, low-ego team on a mission to make healthcare reimbursement fairer for providers. While we primarily hire around our core hubs–Los Angeles and New York–we remain open to exceptional talent outside those regions. Remote and hybrid flexibility varies by role and team, and is outlined in each job description.

If you’re excited by solving complex problems and making a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you .

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Pivotal Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Pivotal Health provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you need assistance during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of applicable background checks, where permitted by law.

Employment with Pivotal Health is at-will and may be terminated by either party at any time, with or without cause or notice, in accordance with applicable law.