Heartflow
Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Foundations)
San Francisco, California · Senior
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$13,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Our existing applications run on AWS Lambda and Fargate, along with RDS, API Gateway, and related services, and are defined in AWS CDK.
- We are moving them onto the new platform.
Responsibilities
- Develop robust, scalable, and automated solutions for running event-driven, serverless-like workflows on Kubernetes, potentially utilizing technologies like KEDA or similar cloud-native tools.
- Build and maintain cloud foundations: account structure, networking, IAM, and shared services, all as code.
Requirements
- Production experience with Terraform, and comfort with Helm.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and containers.
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes on AWS (EKS): networking, security, scaling, and day-two operations.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS CDK, including reading and refactoring existing stacks.
- Experience with KEDA or other event-driven scaling on Kubernetes.
- Experience with Terragrunt, Harness, or an internal developer portal such as Cortex or Backstage.
- Windows or Linux systems administration.
- Experience with monorepos.
- Prior ownership of a multi-quarter technical initiative.
- You will shape a platform while it is still being built, starting with a well-defined, high-impact migration and growing into the broader foundation, reliability, and developer-experience work.
- Heartflow is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills
- cloud foundations, site reliability engineering (SRE), and developer experience.
- Your first big project will focus on the migration to Kubernetes.
- new accounts, new Kubernetes clusters, and the supporting cloud services around them.
Compensation
- A reasonable estimate of the base salary compensation range is $180,000 to $215,000, bonus, and equity. #LI-IB1 #LI-Hybrid
Benefits
- Heartflow is a medical technology company advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease, the #1 cause of death worldwide, using cutting-edge technology.
Company info
- What We're Looking For - Several years of platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering, including at least one migration of production workloads to a new platform or architecture.
- Heartflow has become aware of a fraud where unknown entities are posing as Heartflow recruiters in an attempt to obtain personal information from individuals as part of our application or job offer process.
- We are building a new AWS foundation:
- Improve developer experience through Harness pipelines, golden paths, and the Cortex service catalog, treating internal engineers as the platform's customers.
- What We're Looking For
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