Pivotal Health
Senior Platform Engineer
Santa Monica, CA · Senior · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 79 days ago
PythonGitGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafka
About the role
- This is a high-impact role with meaningful ownership and influence over how our platform continues to mature.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve platform architecture: Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
- Build software that powers the platform: Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
- Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
- Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
- Secure the platform and toolchain: Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
- Partner with engineering teams: Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.
- Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
- While processes like IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) were designed to promote fairness, they're often administrative-heavy, time-consuming, and difficult to navigate without the right tools.
Requirements
- Experience operating in startup or scaling environments
- Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments
- Previous experience in FinTech, HealthTech or highly regulated industries.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- equivalent practical experience will be considered.
- Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills
- Python preferred.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, including equity
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including equity
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Pivotal Health is the leading technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly in an increasingly complex reimbursement landscape.
- Today, many providers face persistent underpayment from health insurance companies, despite delivering high-quality care.
- Pivotal Health combines software, data, and service into a seamlessly integrated, AI-driven platform that simplifies these complex reimbursement workflows.
- We help providers efficiently dispute underpaid claims, reduce administrative burden, and recover the reimbursement they're entitled to; without adding more work to already stretched teams.
- We're building solutions that enable providers to operate with clarity, control, and confidence across the reimbursement journey.
- Own infrastructure as code and automation: Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
Equal opportunity
- Pivotal Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- Reasonable Accommodations
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
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