Staff Platform Engineer

• 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.

• 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

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

• Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
• Meet your Hiring Manager!

• Project Retro

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Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics.

Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually.

Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition.

We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype CycleTM for U.S.

Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedInTM Startup for 2023 & 2024.

Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles.

We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work.

Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.

To us, it’s personal.