Staff Platform Engineer

Overview

Staff Platform Engineer serving as the technical backbone of the Engineering organization, owning technical strategy and delivery of the platform across architecture, DevOps, SRE, security and developer experience.

What you'll do

• Drive platform reliability, scalability, security and cost efficiency across all environments.
• Provide technical leadership for platform components and influence the technical strategy and architecture of the 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 time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems.
• Partner closely with Architecture, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to deliver cohesive platform solutions.
• 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, and traceability of decisions and outputs.
• Ensure enterprise readiness with security, auditability, and reliability in production environments.
• Ensure all platform components and integrations comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations and adhere to industry best practices for data security.
• Assist the manager in information security activities implementation and maintenance, including ISMS roles and responsibilities.
• Implement security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.
• Ensure the team is trained and competent in information security.

What you'll need

• 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: 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).

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.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Ability to commute or relocate to Hyderabad, Telangana before starting work (Preferred).