Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Summary

Join Komodo Health as a Staff Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the backbone of our technology. You will design, build, and scale foundational services and infrastructure, empowering engineering teams to innovate rapidly and reliably. This high-impact role leverages deep technical expertise and leadership skills to drive the evolution of our core platform. You will own critical components, influence architectural direction, and mentor fellow engineers, tackling complex challenges crucial to our success. Within 12 months, you will have significantly impacted Komodo Health's technical foundation and engineering capabilities. This is an individual contributor role.

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of experience
• Proven experience architecting and leading the implementation of complex, scalable, and highly available distributed platform services and infrastructure
• Extensive, hands-on expertise with cloud platforms ( AWS strongly preferred , with deep knowledge of its core compute, storage, networking, and managed services like S3, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Lambda, VPCs)
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes), including experience with service mesh, custom controllers, or advanced deployment strategies (e.g., using ArgoCD, Helm)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and tools, particularly Terraform
• Expert proficiency in core platform languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Scala) and relevant frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Pydantic)
• Advanced application of data structures, algorithms, OOP, and design patterns to build robust, scalable systems
• Deep experience designing and maintaining critical APIs (REST, gRPC) with versioning best practices (e.g., OpenAPI)
• Strategic experience with diverse data storage solutions (e.g., SQL/NoSQL databases, data warehouses like Snowflake, data lake concepts/technologies like Iceberg)
• Proven experience with event stream processing (e.g., Kafka) and designing event-driven architectures or distributed workflow systems (e.g., Temporal, Airflow)
• A proactive approach to identifying and filling gaps in technical understanding and processes
• PST/CST time zone only

Responsibilities

• Architected and Delivered Foundational Platform Enhancements
• Spearheaded the architectural design and led the implementation of at least one major new platform service or critical infrastructure upgrade (e.g., related to data processing, orchestration, API gateways, or core data service frameworks) that demonstrably improves scalability, reliability, or developer velocity for multiple engineering teams
• Driven the adoption of new technical strategies and frameworks for key platform domains, such as our data infrastructure (enabling robust integrations with services like Snowflake, Databricks, AWS S3) or our core deployment and orchestration pipelines (e.g., leveraging Temporal, Airflow), resulting in streamlined operations and enhanced capabilities
• Elevated Engineering Standards and Operational Excellence
• Established and championed new engineering best practices, API design standards (including versioning and OpenAPI adoption), or architectural patterns across the Platform domain and influenced their adoption more broadly within Engineering, measurably improving code quality, system observability, and documentation
• Led initiatives to significantly enhance our automated testing frameworks, CI/CD processes, and operational monitoring for critical platform services, directly contributing to higher standards of reliability and faster, safer deployments
• Provided Key Technical Leadership and Strategic Influence
• Successfully led highly complex, cross-functional platform initiatives from strategic conception and architectural definition through to successful launch and adoption, effectively collaborating with product management, application engineering teams, and other senior stakeholders
• Become a recognized owner and subject matter expert for key platform systems or components, providing authoritative technical guidance, authoring comprehensive design documentation, and articulating a clear future vision for their evolution
• Proactively identified and mitigated significant technical risks within the platform, and played a key role in resolving complex, ambiguous technical challenges that had a broad impact
• Fostered a "Bar Raiser" Culture of Growth and Engineering Excellence
• Consistently pushed for improvement in engineering standards by actively mentoring engineers at all levels, championing advanced software design principles (e.g., Inversion of Control, Repository Pattern), and setting a higher bar for software design, implementation quality, and code review practices across platform teams
• Played a pivotal role in attracting, assessing, and integrating top-tier engineering talent by serving as a key interviewer and "bar raiser" in the hiring process, ensuring new hires significantly contribute to the team's expertise and Komodo’s "Seek Growth" value
• Driven Innovation and Enabled New Capabilities
• Partnered with product managers and engineering leaders to translate evolving business needs into robust, scalable platform solutions, potentially enabling new product features or lines of business by enhancing core technical capabilities
• Researched, prototyped, and advocated for the adoption of innovative technologies or methodologies that provide a clear advantage to Komodo's platform and engineering velocity

Benefits

• $191,000 — $298,000 USD
• Performance-based bonuses
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Prepaid legal assistance
• Paid time off for vacation, sickness, holiday, and bereavement
• 100% company-paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Hybrid work model