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Our mission is to create health benefits that actually benefit small and midsize businesses and their employees. Our innovative benefit solutions and services are developed and delivered by a diverse group of unique people. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.\nRole Summary\nGravie is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the platform our engineering teams ship on. AWS should be second nature: deep enough to reach for it before documentation, and you should be as comfortable working alongside AI agents as in a terminal.\nThe ideal candidate has genuinely operational AWS expertise, has worked in or closely with a platform team before, and knows a platform only succeeds when engineers choose it. They will own shared infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling end to end, partner with our architecture team on turning direction into paved paths teams actually adopt, and treat the engineers who use the platform as the customers they are.\nAt Gravie, engineers work closely with Product and own outcomes end to end, and we practice agentic development to increase the scope and leverage of that ownership: engineers use AI agents to help develop specs and plans, then to execute substantial multi-step engineering work, while setting guardrails and acceptance criteria and owning the quality of everything that ships. As agents take on more of the execution, the bar on problem framing, architectural judgment, system thinking, and risk identification gets higher, not lower.\nHow Our Platform Team Works\nIf you have worked on a platform team, this will be familiar. If you have not, read it carefully, because it is the job.\nThe platform is a product and engineers are its users. Adoption is the measure of success, not tickets closed. If teams route around something we built, that is our problem to solve, not their failure to comply.\n\nSelf-service over gatekeeping. If the answer to a common request is a ticket to us, that is a bug in the platform.\n\nWe pave roads, we do not police them. Standards belong in pipelines, templates, and defaults, not in reminders and review comments.\n\nSmall team, wide surface. Leverage matters more than heroics, which is why AI tooling and automation are not side projects here - they are how the surface stays covered.\n\nWe operate what we ship. On-call for platform services is ours. So is the postmortem, and so is fixing the class of problem rather than the instance.\n\nDocumentation is a deliverable. A capability nobody can find or adopt without asking us is not finished.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild and operate the shared platform: CI/CD pipelines, service templates, deployment tooling, and the shared infrastructure services teams depend on.\n\nOwn AWS infrastructure as code across multiple accounts, in Terraform, CDK, or both, held to the same standard as application code, including review, testing, and a real rollback story.\n\nImplement and sustain the paved paths teams build on, partnering with architecture on direction while owning the operational reality once a path is live.\n\nOperate what you build: on-call for platform services, incident response, the postmortem, and fixing the class of problem rather than the instance.\n\nBuild observability in by default: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerts that page a human only when a human is actually needed.\n\nOwn platform security posture alongside Security: identity and permission boundaries, secrets handling, network and data isolation, and remediation of findings in a HIPAA and SOC 2 environment.\n\nMake cloud spend attributable and defensible through tagging discipline, cost visibility, and removing waste before it compounds.\n\nUse AI agents as a normal part of daily workflow, and build them into the platform where they create leverage, including code review, alert triage, migrations, and repetitive remediation.\n\nAutomate toil out of the platform, reducing the number of requests that require a person at all, and measure whether it worked.\n\nTreat documentation and developer onboarding as part of the deliverable, so teams can adopt platform capability without asking first.\n\nDrive adoption of platform capability and standards, including the unglamorous migration work needed to move existing services.\n\nRaise the engineering bar through code review and mentorship, and help other engineers get more out of AI tooling.\n\nQualifications\nFive or more years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including ownership of production systems that you also operated.\n\nAWS to a depth that is genuinely second nature - reasoning about IAM policy evaluation, VPC routing and DNS, and container or serverless runtime behavior without reaching for documentation first, and having been the person who diagnosed it under real pressure.\n\nHands-on ownership of a multi-account AWS environment, including identity boundaries, networking, managed data services, and cost and tagging governance.\n\nInfrastructure as code as your default rather than your fallback, in Terraform, CDK, or both, including how you review it, test it, and reason about blast radius before applying it.\n\nStrong CI/CD engineering, including shared or templated pipelines consumed by more than one team.\n\nExperience working in or closely with a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience team, and a clear point of view on what makes a platform get adopted rather than merely tolerated.\n\nReal comfort with AI tooling in daily engineering work - using coding agents such as Claude Code to do meaningful multi-step work, able to describe where they fail and how you catch it, and keeping ownership of what ships.\n\nProduction operations experience: on-call, incident response, postmortems, and SLO thinking.\n\nStrong programming ability in at least one language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or a JVM language, enough to build tooling rather than only configure it.\n\nSound judgment on security, secrets, access control, and data handling, ideally in a regulated or audited environment.\n\nClear written communication - on a platform team, documentation and a well-argued change proposal are load-bearing, not overhead.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nHealthcare or another regulated domain, including HIPAA and SOC 2 obligations.\n\nPrevious experience in a venture-backed high growth company.\n\nGitLab CI at scale, including templated pipelines with typed inputs consumed across many repositories.\n\nDatadog in depth: monitors, dashboards, SLOs, and keeping observability cost under control.\n\nContainer orchestration at production scale, such as ECS or Kubernetes.\n\nBuilding AI tooling rather than only using it, such as MCP servers, Claude Code plugins or skills, or agent harnesses.\n\nDependency and currency automation, such as Renovate, and the lifecycle policy around it.\n\nDelivery metrics work, including DORA, and the definitional arguments that come with it.\n\nFamiliarity with Team Topologies vocabulary and where platform teams fit alongside stream-aligned and enabling teams.\n\nExperience decommissioning a platform capability, not only launching one.\n\nA Little More About Us:\nWe know healthcare. Our company was founded and is still led by industry veterans who have started and grown several market-leading companies in the space.\n\nWe have raised money from top tier investors who share the same long-term vision as we do of building an industry defining company that will endure over the long run. We are well capitalized.\n\nOur clients love us. Customer satisfaction rates among employees using Gravie health plans consistently rank above 80% - nearly 40 points above the industry average.\n\nOur culture is unique. We tend to be non-hierarchical, merit-driven, opinionated but kind people who thrive working in a high-performance, fast-paced environment. People at Gravie care deeply about making a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve.\n\nBenefits\nOur unique benefits program is the gravy, i.e., the special sauce that sets our compensation package apart. 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