Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Charlie Health as a Senior Platform Engineer and play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our core services and cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with various engineering teams to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and secure deployments. This position requires 3+ years of experience in a relevant role, proficiency in Python, Golang, or Typescript, and expertise with AWS services. You will develop and maintain core services, architect cloud infrastructure, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and implement security best practices. The role also involves mentoring other engineers and participating in on-call rotations. Charlie Health offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a Platform, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role
• 2+ years of experience writing production-level backend code
• 2+ years of expertise with AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Aurora, SQS, Eventbridge, EC2, ECR, etc.)
• Proficiency with tools like Python, Golang, or Typescript
• Strong proficiency in Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Datadog, Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sumologic, and OpsGenie
• Proven track record of breaking down large problems and delivering incremental value to meet deadlines while providing options for long-term improvements
• Passion for automation, scalability, and building secure, cost-effective, self-healing systems
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our core services and libraries in Python, Typescript, and Golang
• Architect, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terragrunt and OpenTofu (Terraform)
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to streamline deployments and improve developer productivity
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using tools like Bash, Golang, and Python
• Implement security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines, including IAM, networking, and HIPAA compliance controls
• Work alongside product engineering teams to deliver services that require new foundational platform capabilities
• Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, and cost-efficiency improvements across our deployed services
• Provide options around key initiatives and break down work into visible and achievable milestones, delivering incremental value
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the organization and seek to continually improve architecture and processes
• Improve developer velocity and happiness by identifying and abstracting common functionality and listening to feedback from the rest of engineering
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system availability and timely incident resolution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large cloud or monolith to microservices migrations
• Solid experience with Linux system administration, networking, and security best practices
• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer productivity tooling
• Background in SDET, QA, or Performance Testing

Benefits

• Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees
• The total target base compensation for this role will be between $150,000 and $200,000 per year at the commencement of employment
• Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits