Senior Platform Engineer

LifeMD

Senior Platform Engineer responsible for the AWS infrastructure of a telehealth company. Designing microservices architecture and building high-quality software solutions.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AWS infrastructure management, utilizing Terraform and Pulumi for infrastructure as code, alongside proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript for building automation and internal tooling. Strong leadership in mentoring engineers and driving observability practices in a healthcare environment is essential.

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AWS Infrastructure ManagementTerraform and Pulumi ExpertiseMicroservices Migration ExperienceObservability in DatadogLeadership and Mentoring

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure as CodeMicroservices ArchitectureContainer ManagementCI/CD PracticesPython ProgrammingGo ProgrammingTypeScript ProgrammingTerraformPulumiAWS Services

Soft Skills

MentoringClear CommunicationIncident Response Leadership

Tools & Technologies

DatadogECSEC2GitHub ActionsVPC

Industry Keywords

Healthcare ComplianceHIPAASOC 2

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDNSEC2GoMicroservicesPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi, with an emphasis on reusable modules, safe change management, and multi-account/multi-environment patterns
Operate and evolve container platforms across ECS and EC2, including cluster architecture, autoscaling, networking, and cost optimization
Drive our migration to microservices: decompose existing services, establish golden paths for service scaffolding, CI/CD, and deployment, and partner with product engineering teams through the transition
Build internal tooling and automation in a general-purpose language (Python, Go, or TypeScript) — this role writes real software, not just configuration
Own and advance our observability practice in Datadog: SLOs, dashboards, alerting strategy, distributed tracing, and driving down noise so on-call is humane
Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; turn findings into durable platform improvements
Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and set technical direction for platform standards across teams
Champion security, compliance, and reliability best practices appropriate to a healthcare environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, with a strong software development background — you're comfortable being evaluated on both your code and your architecture
Deep, production experience with Terraform and hands-on experience with Pulumi (or strong Terraform plus a compelling reason we should trust you to ramp fast)
Expert-level AWS knowledge: compute (ECS, Serverless, EC2), networking (VPC, load balancing, DNS), IAM, and the surrounding ecosystem
Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript, including testing and CI practices
Direct experience decomposing monoliths or migrating platforms to microservices, and the scars to prove it — service boundaries, data migration, traffic cutover, rollback strategy
Strong observability chops: metrics, logging, tracing, SLO design (Datadog experience is a plus)
Demonstrated leadership: mentoring engineers, leading cross-team initiatives, communicating clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2)
GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platform experience at org scale
Experience with release management, deployment gates, and progressive delivery (canary, blue/green)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual Salary up to $170,000
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Retirement Plan (Roth 401k)
Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
Flexible PTO Policy
Paid Holidays
Short Term Disability
Training & Development