Staff Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 8, 2026.
Join PatientPoint to be part of a dynamic team creating change in and around the doctor’s office. As a leading digital health company, we innovate to positively impact patient behaviors. Our purpose-driven approach offers an inspirational career opportunity where you can contribute to improving health outcomes for millions of patients nationwide.
Location: Remotewithin the United States
Travel Required: 2-4 Times a Year
Job Summary
PatientPoint'sPlatform team builds and runs the cloud platform our engineers use to ship patient- and provider-facing products safely and quickly. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’llowntechnical problems that cross systems and teams, turning ambiguous goals like safer deployments or fewer pages into multi-quarter plans and leading them to done. You’llstay hands-on, writing the hardest changes and the key design documents, and makethe engineers around you better.
What You’llDo
- Lead multi-quarter programs that span several systems, such as how cloud accounts, CI/CD, identityand artifact management fit together and trust each other.
- Set technical direction for a large part of the platform through designdocuments and decision records, andbuildagreementacross Engineering and Security.
- Define reliability for the services the platform supports: service levels, alerting, and on-call design that routes problems to people who can fix them.
- Sequence risky changes across interconnected systems so that fixing one doesn’tbreak another, including how reliability fixes from our SRE team reach production safely.
- Identifywhat the team should work on next, andmake the case with cost and risk.
- Grow Senior engineers through design review and mentorship, andstay hands-on on the most critical changes.
What We Need
- 5+ years of professional experience in any of:software engineering, cloud or infrastructure engineering, systems or network administration, site reliability, DevOps, or platform engineering.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure, containersand CI/CD (AWS, Kubernetes or similar), with infrastructure as code.
- Experience leading a technical initiative that spanned multiple systems or teams, from proposal to completion.
- Experience designing for reliability and security, such as access models, deployment safety, observabilityand incident response.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience designing Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GitOps) and multi-account AWS organizations, IAM and cross-account networking; Azure is a plus.
- Experience securing CI/CD: federated identity, short-lived credentials, secretsmanagement and software supply-chaincontrols.
- Experience setting service level objectivesand alerting strategy with New Relic, PagerDuty or similar tools.
- Experience with build-versus-buy and vendor evaluations, including AI-assisted tooling for operational work, in a regulated environment such as healthcare (HIPAA, SOC 2).
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
What You’llNeed to Succeed
- Influence across teams and withleadership, without formal authority.
- Comfort with ambiguity: you turn it into a plan with milestones, andput numbers on the tradeoffs.
- Clear technical writing: design documents and proposals that technical and non-technical readers can act on
Base Salary Band: $136,880 - $210,891
Compensation: At PatientPoint, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications, geographic location, and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. The base salary range listed is just one component of PatientPoint’s total compensation package for employees. For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “About PatientPoint” at the end of this job description.
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About PatientPoint:
PatientPoint® is the Point of Change company, transforming the healthcare experience through the strategic delivery of behavior-changing content at critical moments of care. As the nation’s largest and most impactful digital network in 30,000 physician offices, we connect patients, providers and health brands with relevant information that is proven to drive healthier decisions and better outcomes. Learn more at patientpoint.com.
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What We Offer:
We know you bring your whole self to work every day, and we are committed to supporting our full-time teammates with a comprehensive range of modernized benefits and cultural perks. We offer competitive compensation, flexible time off to recharge, hybrid work options, mental and emotional wellness resources, a 401K plan, and more. While these benefits are available to full-time team members, we strive to create a positive and supportive environment for all teammates.
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