Staff Platform Engineer
Gravie · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$194k – $258k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote
- AWS + Terraform
- Production AI focus
- Healthcare domain
This position serves as the technical hub for Gravie, focusing on creating paved paths for engineering teams, defining target-state architecture, and implementing AI-enabled solutions. You will partner with Platform Engineering to ensure standards are adopted through tooling and reference implementations rather than just documentation.
What you'll do
- Build reference implementations and shared libraries to create easy adoption paths
- Define and publish target-state architecture with clear ownership and decision dates
- Design production-grade AI agent systems including orchestration and guardrails
- Own AWS foundations such as multi-account structure and identity boundaries
- Drive standards adoption from documents into pipelines with measured results
- Partner with Platform Engineering to plan roadmaps and hand off sustaining ownership
- Establish patterns for AI quality assurance including automated evaluations
- Facilitate cross-team alignment and surface duplicated efforts or disagreements
What you'll need
- Eight or more years of software engineering experience with architecture scope
- Deep AWS expertise in multi-account organizations and infrastructure as code
- Hands-on experience building and operating production AI applications
- Proficiency in Python or JVM backend systems, or React and TypeScript
- Experience with retrieval, embeddings, context, and AI agent architectures
- Track record of establishing architectural foundations adopted by other teams
- Strong judgment in testing, monitoring, and data governance in regulated environments
- Ability to influence without authority and drive cross-team communication
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or benefits administration domains
- Knowledge of interoperability standards like EDI and FHIR
- Experience with GitLab CI at scale and templated pipelines
- Familiarity with Datadog for production and LLM observability
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka or Flink
- Practical use of agent tooling like Claude Code or Model Context Protocol
Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- CDK
- Python
- React
- TypeScript
- GitLab CI
- Datadog
- Kafka
- Flink
How you'll work
- Remote work environment
- Non-hierarchical and merit-driven culture
- High-performance and fast-paced setting
What you get
- Standard health and wellness benefits
- Alternative medicine coverage
- Flexible paid time off
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- 401k program
- Transportation perks
- Education reimbursement
- Two days of paid paw-ternity leave