Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer

at Pivotal Health

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Senior Platform Engineer helping design, scale, and harden Pivotal’s AI-driven platform. Collaborating closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the architecture of our platform by evaluating trade-offs, improving system design, and partnering with teams to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports long-term growth.
• Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
• Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
• Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
• Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
• Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
• Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.
• Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• Strong software engineering foundation with solid coding skills; Python preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (GCP preferred)
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
• Strong understanding of containers, Docker, and cloud networking fundamentals, as well as orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience with databases and data infrastructure
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar)
• Comfortable discussing architectural trade-offs and system design decisions clearly and thoughtfully.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
• Flexible time off
• Opportunities for company-wide connection and events