Senior Platform Engineer
Solace · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
$150k – $200k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Platform Engineer
- Fully remote (US only)
- GCP + Kubernetes
- Healthcare startup
- On-call rotation
Join Solace as a Senior Platform Engineer to construct the invisible infrastructure powering better healthcare outcomes. You will enable rapid deployment for product and data engineers while building safeguards that allow systems to recover from failures autonomously.
This position suits a generalist who thrives in high-urgency startup settings, balancing high-level architecture with low-level troubleshooting. You will take ownership of cloud foundations, ensuring reliability and precision in a mission-driven team.
What you'll do
- Build and expand cloud infrastructure and application platforms
- Design autonomous self-healing processes for system resilience
- Assess risk and impact for changes in live environments
- Troubleshoot complex technical and governance interactions
- Support product and data engineers with platform expertise
- Participate in the on-call rotation for incident response
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and internal customers
What you'll need
- Experience building scalable infrastructure for web or data workloads
- Deep troubleshooting skills across architectural layers
- Fluency with Linux and command-line tools
- Cloud infrastructure experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Strong understanding of networking concepts like VPCs and DNS
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog or OpenTelemetry
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment
- Must be currently based in the United States
Nice to have
- Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Knowledge of GitOps technologies like Terraform
- Expertise in Kubernetes for scalable workload management
- Background in site reliability engineering and cost optimization
- Experience with CI/CD systems and developer productivity tools
- Knowledge of data infrastructure including warehouses and pipelines
- Experience in highly regulated industries like healthcare
Stack
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Linux
How you'll work
- Fully remote within the United States
- Participation in on-call rotation required
- Fast-paced startup environment