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Solace is a Series C healthcare startup (founded 2022, $1B valuation) that pairs patients with expert advocates and tools to navigate the complex U.S. healthcare system. The company is backed by top-tier VCs including Inspired Capital, Craft Ventures, and Menlo Ventures.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll join a lean, mission-driven team building the infrastructure powering Solace's platform. You'll enable product and data engineers to move aggressively with daily deployments, design autonomous self-healing systems, and troubleshoot complex failures spanning technology, governance, and people.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and scaling cloud infrastructure and application platforms
- Assessing risk and impact for production changes
- Participating in on-call rotation
- Designing autonomous recovery processes
- Mentoring product and data engineers in your areas of expertise
- Communicating with stakeholders and internal platform customers
You're a generalist who thrives working independently and collaboratively, with deep curiosity about how systems work and fail. You have impeccable communication skills, absorb feedback well, and take ownership in fast-moving environments.
Core competencies required:
- Startup experience
- Scalable infrastructure for web applications or data workloads
- Deep troubleshooting across architectural layers
- Linux command-line fluency
- Cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable)
- Networking fundamentals (VPCs, DNS, load balancers, TLS, CDNs)
- Observability tools (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
Desired focus areas (one or more):
- Site reliability and performance optimization
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Polyglot programming and code comprehension
- DevOps and CI/CD systems
- Developer product experience and tooling
- Data infrastructure (warehouses, pipelines, replication)
- Distributed systems design and troubleshooting
- Healthcare industry security and compliance
Must be based in the United States.
