Senior Platform Engineer, Medical Devices

Senior Platform Engineer, Medical Devices Location

United States

Full time

Remote

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With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us.

We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:
For the US:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Wash D.C., Boston

Tier 2: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Portland, Boulder, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, LA

Tier 3: Everywhere else in the US

For the UK:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of London, Cambridge, Oxford

Tier 2: Everywhere else in the UK

For Canada:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Toronto & Vancouver

Tier 2: Everywhere else in Canada

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We are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to develop the infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines required to support the operational needs of our Medical Device product, from an embedded Linux fleet in the field to the cloud. Treating infrastructure as a product, you'll build the systems that let our device, cloud, and data-science software engineers ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on, systems-minded role - you will write real tooling, not just pipeline YAML- and you will make the compliant path the fast path so we never trade patient safety for speed.

OTA & Kiosk Fleet Lifecycle: Own the build, signing, rollout, rollback, and per-device configuration for our in-field Linux kiosk fleet—along with the update mechanisms, recovery mechanisms, and operational tooling that keep fielded devices safe and reliable, and working with our cloud system.

CI/CD & Release Promotion: Own CI/CD, test-gated promotion, controlled approvals, and release traceability across both cloud and device software, defining the deployment control plane that makes releases boring, reversible, and auditable.

Observability & Infrastructure Quality: Own the operational quality bar for the platform—observability, alerting, reliability, backup and recovery, auditability, and security controls—and build the tooling that makes the…