Zocdoc
Senior Platform Engineering Manager
New York, NY; Silicon Valley, CA; USA Remote · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$310kDetected 13 days ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsCI/CDPlatform EngineeringLeadershipMentoring
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61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Level II$137,7172 entries
Level III$165,5893 entries
Level IV$193,4614 entries
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About the role
- We're here to give power to the patient.
- For nearly 20 years, we've built the leading healthcare marketplace - helping tens of millions of people find and book the care they need.
- We want to make sure all of those doors open when patients are knocking.
Responsibilities
- A platform leader who finds deep satisfaction in building what other engineers build on, and in creating leverage across a portfolio.
- Technically strong enough to partner with engineers on architecture and system design, and disciplined enough to lead through managers, senior engineers, and staff engineers.
- Motivated by delivering business outcomes and energized by building inclusive, high-performing, psychologically safe teams.
- Lead, coach, and grow a portfolio of Platform Engineering teams through managers and senior/staff engineers, building leadership depth over time.
- Own Platform Engineering priorities, operating standards, and outcomes; translate technical leadership's direction for major bets into priorities, guardrails, and execution plans.
- Resolve cross-team trade-offs in sequencing, reliability, and operations while delegating detailed design and implementation to managers and staff engineers.
- Align engineering and cross-functional partners, unblock dependencies, hire exceptional leaders, and build an inclusive, high-performing, psychologically safe culture.
- 10+ years building and shipping software, with a strong foundation in Platform, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering.
Compensation
- Zocdoc is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Benefits
- Own portfolio reliability and operational health by setting clear expectations, strengthening on-call practices, and driving learning from incidents.
Company info
- Zocdoc is the country's leading digital health marketplace that helps patients easily find and book the care they need.
- Each month, millions of patients use our free service to find nearby, in-network providers, compare choices based on verified patient reviews, and instantly book in-person or video visits online.
- Providers participate in Zocdoc's Marketplace to reach new patients to grow their practice, fill their last-minute openings, and deliver a better healthcare experience.
- Founded in 2007 with a mission to give power to the patient, our work each day in pursuit of that mission is guided by our six core values.
- Zocdoc is a private company backed by some of the world's leading investors, and we believe we're still only scratching the surface of what we plan to accomplish.
- Zocdoc is a mission-driven organization dedicated to building teams as diverse as the patients and providers we aim to serve.
- In the spirit of one of our core values - Together, Not Alone, we are a company that prides itself on being highly collaborative, and we believe that diverse perspectives, experiences and contributors make our community and our platform better.
- We're an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- You call again.
- In every other part of your life, you book in seconds.
- In healthcare, you're blocked.
- Now, we're going further: building our infrastructure beyond Zocdoc's marketplace to power access to care wherever patients search, from provider websites and insurance directories to search engines, AI platforms, and more.
- Healthcare still lacks something every other major consumer industry takes for granted: a seamless way to go from seeking to getting.
- We don't want to own the front door to care; there isn't one.
- Fixing healthcare starts with fixing access to it.
- And we're still just getting started.
- Your Impact on our Mission
- At Zocdoc, you'll lead a portfolio of Platform Engineering teams that build backend platforms, AI development platforms, developer tooling, and shared services used across our engineering organization.
- You'll own the portfolio's multi-year strategy, priorities, sequencing, investment choices, organizational design, and outcomes; connecting platform work to engineering velocity, reliability, cost efficiency, and measurable business impact.
- You'll lead through managers and senior/staff engineers, building the organizational depth to scale beyond your direct involvement.
- You own Platform Engineering's priorities, sequencing, operating standards, and outcomes.
- You'll work directly with technical leadership to set the direction for major technical bets; you'll translate that direction into an executable portfolio plan, define implementation guardrails, and create the mechanisms for teams to own delivery.
- You'll partner with Engineering, Compliance, Security, and Infrastructure to align priorities, resolve cross-team trade-offs, drive adoption, improve operational health, and establish safe, effective AI-assisted and agentic development patterns within Platform Engineering.
- You'll enjoy this role if you are...
- Interested in responsibly applying AI-assisted and agentic development to improve software delivery, with clear guardrails and measurable gains in quality, reliability, and speed
- Comfortable holding breadth across developer platforms, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and shared services while keeping teams aligned around a coherent strategy.
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