Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Midi Health

Staff Software Engineer at Midi Health driving platform engineering strategies for women's health tech. Leading initiatives on core services and AI tooling with a focus on developer productivity.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for core platform services (auth, notifications, jobs, feature flags, shared libraries) and developer productivity tooling (dev environments, test infra, CI/CD, internal tooling, paved paths)
Lead high-impact, cross-cutting initiatives across cloud infrastructure, data infrastructure, and reliability practices (multi-region, cost, observability, security posture, platform ergonomics)
Define and enforce the security and compliance foundations for a HIPAA environment
Treat product engineers as customers; raise the bar on developer experience across the org
Partner with engineering leadership on capacity, hiring, and platform roadmap
Mentor platform and product engineers; grow the platform competency across the org
Lead how platform engineering leverages AI tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience building production services and/or infrastructure at scale
Seasoned hands-on engineer; still writes meaningful code (Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar)
Seasoned system designer across distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, networking, security, and cloud (AWS/GCP)
Authority in platform engineering — you've owned core services and/or developer platform direction at a high-growth company before
Deep product sense for internal tooling; track record of measurably improving developer velocity
Leader in AI-assisted engineering; you define how platform teams adopt and benefit from it
Seasoned mentor with a track record of growing platform engineers
Strong communicator with product, security, and executive stakeholders
Low-ego, curious, humble

Benefits

Comp & perks

wide range of benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoTypeScriptdistributed systemsAPIsdata platformsnetworkingsecuritycloudCI/CD

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationleadershipcustomer focuscollaborationcuriosityhumilityproduct sensedeveloper experienceteam growth