Lead Platform Engineer

Pager Health

Lead Platform Engineer providing technical leadership and architectural direction at Pager Health, designing scalable solutions and improving deployment automation.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicroservicesSDLCSQLTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for our cloud platform and infrastructure.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
Lead the design and continuous improvement of our CI/CD platform and deployment automation.
Develop self-service tooling that enables engineers to provision, deploy, and operate services independently.
Improve platform reliability, disaster recovery readiness, observability, and cloud cost efficiency.
Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable platform patterns.
Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative problem solving.
Lead complex technical initiatives from research and planning through production deployment.
Partner closely with Software Engineering, Security, and Operations teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term platform improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
2+ years of technical leadership experience
10+ years of relevant engineering experience
Possess deep expertise designing and operating cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes and containerized microservices in production environments
Strong experience designing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Has built and maintained enterprise CI/CD platforms and deployment pipelines.
Understanding of networking, security, IAM, secret management, and cloud architecture principles.
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
Able to write clean, maintainable, well-tested automation and infrastructure code.
Uses metrics and operational data to drive engineering decisions and prioritize work.
Takes ownership of both your work and the long-term health of the platform.
Cloud & Infrastructure experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Terraform, Helm, VPC Networking, Cloud SQL and Atlas
Platform & Automation experience with tools like, Harness, Cloud Build, Docker, Vault and Github
Experience with observability tools like, Google Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver) and New Relic
Experience with Disaster recovery and high availability, Performance optimization, Infrastructure security and secure software delivery, and/or Cost optimization in cloud environments is highly desirable

Benefits

Comp & perks

stock options
medical
dental
vision
generous PTO
stipends for professional development
wellness benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesTerraformCI/CDautomationnetworkingsecuritySDLCAgile methodologies

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborative problem solvingownershipcommunication