Charlie Health Engineering, Product & Design

Charlie Health Engineering, Product & Design

Principal Platform Engineer, Core Platform

New York, NY · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
TypeScriptPythonDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSPlatform EngineeringGraphQLKafkaSparkAgentic AIAI OrchestrationComplianceProcurementCadenceHIPAAHL7/FHIRLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Our customers are Charlie Health's other engineering teams, and our job is to make them faster, safer, and more consistent.
  • This is a technical leadership role without direct reports.

Responsibilities

  • Own the team's roadmap and intake. Balance incoming platform requests and near-term developer pain against long-term architectural investment, with support from the Director of Platform Engineering and the CTO
  • Build authentication and authorization for the platform, including agent identity: scoped, short-lived, audited credentials for non-human principals
  • Design, build, and operate the centralized event substrate, including schema governance, dead-letter conventions, and the producer and consumer patterns that make async the default integration path between services
  • Deliver the real-time world model state layer: the stream processing that turns events into state, and the live, low-latency state graph that services and agents query
  • Drive the technical evaluation for procurement and renewals of our critical platform vendors: evaluations, proofs of concept, usage and cost data, and build versus buy recommendations, partnering with the Director who owns the commercial side

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including ownership of platform or distributed systems architecture at company scale.
  • Hands-on experience with GraphQL federation at scale and with event streaming systems such as Kafka, covering design, schema governance, and production operation rather than just consumption
  • Experience with skills, MCPs, harnesses, agentic tooling ecosystems, or agent orchestration for software development
  • A track record of technical leadership without people authority.
  • You have aligned multiple teams behind architectural outcomes and developed senior engineers
  • Experience owning a team roadmap: intake, prioritization, and delivery planning alongside the architecture work
  • Proficiency in the stack we run: TypeScript and/or Python services, Postgres, and AWS managed primitives
  • Comfort operating production critical-path systems, including on-call, in a regulated environment
  • A strangler-fig migration or large platform cutover you have led

Compensation

  • The total target base compensation for this role will be between $225,000 and $325,000 per year at the commencement of employment.

Benefits

  • Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees.
  • Read more about our benefits here.
  • Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits.
  • If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Charlie Health, please go directly to our Careers Page: https://www.charliehealth.com/careers/current-openings.
  • In addition, Charlie Health will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team.
  • Please note, pay will be determined on an individualized basis and will be impacted by location, experience, expertise, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.

Company info

  • Architect the federated GraphQL supergraph and govern its schema, including subgraph onboarding standards, contract enforcement, and caching and persisted query posture
  • Guide the technical execution of our strangler-fig migration through to cutover, working with product squads as they move onto the new platform
  • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers toward larger scope
  • Charlie Health will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company.

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