Staff Platform Engineer

Citizen Health
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Automation","Observability","CI/CD","Security"]

Lead the platform engineering function for an agentic AI healthcare platform. Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security/compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), and reliability across long-running AI sessions, real-time messaging, and tool integrations. Build scalable, cost-efficient architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with AI, data, and product teams to accelerate safe production deployments.

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Citizen Health
Citizen Health
4 months ago

Staff Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the platform engineering function for an agentic AI healthcare platform. Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security/compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), and reliability across long-running AI sessions, real-time messaging, and tool integrations. Build scalable, cost-efficient architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with AI, data, and product teams to accelerate safe production deployments.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and own platform infrastructure strategy, including architectures for long-running AI agent sessions, real-time messaging, and autonomous tool execution within HIPAA boundaries.
  • •Own the deployment pipeline end-to-end, reducing friction for dozens of production releases per day.
  • •Lead reliability and observability initiatives, defining SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure high uptime.
  • •Manage AI inference cost and capacity, optimizing model serving and GPU compute usage.
  • •Partner with product, AI/ML, data, and security to translate platform needs into roadmaps and mentor engineers across the organization.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience; 4+ years in a senior IC or technical leadership role on a Platform, SRE, or DevOps team.
Experience:8+ yearsHealthcareHealthtechAiSaas
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingAutomationObservabilityCI/CDSecurity
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonTypeScriptKubernetesTerraformPulumiGitHub ActionsArgoCDSpinnakerAWSGCPAzureGPUVector databases

Company Brief

Citizen Health
Builds an AI-powered, patient-centered platform that helps people with rare and complex conditions centralize and interpret medical records, enable longitudinal data sharing with researchers and biopharma, and accelerate therapies through patient-driven real-world data.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2023
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