Lead Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Solace, a healthcare advocacy marketplace, as a Lead Platform Engineer and become our in-house DevOps expert. You will own the strategy, architecture, and implementation of the infrastructure supporting our engineering team. This hands-on role empowers product engineers by enabling fast and confident development. We need someone with extensive AWS expertise and a passion for building scalable systems, improving developer velocity, and ensuring flawless deployments. You will lead the infrastructure migration from Heroku to AWS, set up isolated feature testing environments, monitor performance, and automate processes for speed and reliability. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in autonomy, leads with conviction, and collaborates effectively with product engineers. Solace is a Series B startup with a fully remote U.S. team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps/Platform experience, preferably in high-growth startups
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.) and a track record deploying applications in production environments
• Strong background in setting up CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Deep focus on developer enablement. You love removing friction, automating everything, and making tools a breeze to use
• Experience implementing and scaling monitoring tools/APMs
• Familiarity with Heroku and experience leading large-scale migrations from PaaS to IaaS
• Fluency in scripting/automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Terraform)
• Clear communicator who can explain infrastructure tradeoffs and proactively support engineers

Responsibilities

• Own the DevOps roadmap: Architect and lead the evolution of our infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and developer workflows
• Drive our AWS migration: Seamlessly transition infrastructure from Heroku to AWS with zero downtime, ensuring parity and improving reliability and observability
• Optimize developer experience: Build tools, abstractions, and automated systems that let software engineers focus purely on writing application code
• Enable isolated feature testing: Design and automate the creation/deletion of ephemeral testing environments for every feature branch
• Monitor and optimize performance: Set up end-to-end monitoring and alerting systems, identify performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with engineers to address them before they impact users
• Secure and scale: Build systems that are secure by design, highly available, and prepared for scale as we grow rapidly

Benefits

This is a remote position