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We believe that there is a better healthcare world - one powered by data. Our platform transforms complex, diverse data into a unified foundation for health, helping organizations deliver better care, boost revenue, and lower costs.\nWe’re a team of fiercely driven individuals committed to making healthcare more sustainable-and we’re looking for passionate people to help us get there.\nFor more information, visit arcadia.io.\nWhy This Role Is Important to Arcadia\nAs our business grows, and as AI is improving, we need fewer, better building blocks: less per-team glue, more self-service capabilities every team builds on, so engineers spend their time on customers instead of plumbing. This is platform engineering at Arcadia. The role could just as well be titled Developer Platform, DevEx, DevProd, or SRE.\nArcadia builds and operates the petabyte-size lakehouse, and the client-facing applications that run on Kubernetes. The role will span both, reporting directly to the engineering VP.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nArcadia engineers and their agents rely on platform building blocks, from services and pipelines to databases, queues, and storage, that come wired in with logging, metrics, tracing, alerts, encryption, access controls, backups, and cost tags, with sensible defaults.\nTeams change their own pipelines, environments, alerts, and SLOs. When something breaks, the owning team sees it first, traces it to the change that caused it, and rolls it back themselves. They see their own delivery numbers and cloud spend, and act on them. Platform upgrades reach them as a merged pull request, not a checklist. Engineers take the paved road because it's the fastest way to production, and platform engineers spend their time building capabilities, not working tickets.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nPush quality attributes into the platform, especially as AI increases the volume of changes: test and regression gates, progressive delivery and fast rollback, supply-chain and policy checks in the pipeline, and cost that's visible and attributable to the teams.\nRun the platform as a curated internal product: find what slows teams down, pick the few capabilities worth building, publish the roadmap, and measure adoption, delivery speed, stability, and developer satisfaction.\nBuild software: self-service APIs, templates, and golden paths for CI/CD, environments, and observability, so teams get what they need without waiting on anyone. You write a meaningful share of the code.\nCarry the cost of migrations: track usage, automate instead of handing out checklists, push through the final 20%, and sunset.\nManage the platform's stakeholders: say yes with compromises, say no without breaking trust, bring shadow platforms back onto the paved road, and make cost visible to the teams that generate it.\nSet the technical direction and evolve the platform, and coach Senior Engineers through design partnership and review.\nWhat You'll Bring\nBoth halves of platform engineering: a software engineer's instinct for clean abstractions and APIs, and a systems engineer's depth in cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and IaC.\nReliability you've owned: SLOs, observability, on-call, and incident response.\nCustomer empathy: you talk to the engineers you serve, tell a real need from a loud request, and retire what nobody uses.\nBig, long-running projects you've seen through: migrations pushed past the final 20%, platforms sunset on purpose, and the attention to detail both require.\nA clear philosophy on structuring infrastructure and delivery for security, velocity, and reliability, and the stories behind it.\nCurrent, hands-on production coding, the habit of figuring things out (research, spike, deliver), and relentless pragmatism about what's worth building.\nDrive to reduce toil for everyone through software.\nAbility to initiate and get stuff done org-wide.\nNo healthcare background required.\nWould Love for You to Have\nRegulated-data experience (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2 or HITRUST environments).\nA public voice through talks, writing, or open source.\nExperience turning an infrastructure or DevOps team into a product-minded platform team.\nExperience building platform support that scales: support tiers, office hours, docs, and developer advocacy.\nExperience making cloud and CI cost visible and actionable for the teams that generate it.\nWhat You'll Get\nThe opportunity to own Arcadia's platform and to set its direction for years.\nDirect influence on how Arcadia's engineering org works on daily basis; 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