Senior Platform Engineer

Pivotal Health

Senior Platform Engineer helping to design, scale, and secure Pivotal’s platform architecture. Collaborating with teams to improve reliability, security, and automation workflows and aid underpaid healthcare providers.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and evolve platform architecture: Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
Build software that powers the platform: Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
Own infrastructure as code and automation: Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
Secure the platform and toolchain: Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
Reduce toil and improve leverage: Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.
Partner with engineering teams: Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.
Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)
Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Experience with databases and data infrastructure
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)
Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including equity
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
Flexible time off
Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTerraformCI/CDGitHubGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesdatabasesevent-driven architecturescloud-native systems

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingarchitectural decision-makingdeveloper productivity improvementreliability enhancementsystem designautomationpartnering with teamsreducing toil

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringrelated field degree