# Founding Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [GovWell](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/govwell)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $190k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Datadog, GraphQL, Postgres, Observability, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Founding Platform Engineer responsible for building and operating core backend systems, including deployment, observability, incident response, and security foundations. Requires 5+ years experience with Node/TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, and strong ownership in a hybrid NYC role.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own GovWell’s deployment and reliability platform, ensuring systems are production-safe, observable, and resilient as customer and engineering load grows.
- Build and evolve CI/CD foundations that improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability across multiple teams shipping independently.
- Establish and maintain observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and on-call foundations.
- Lead incident response practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Own platform-level security and compliance foundations, including SOC 2 readiness, vulnerability management, and access controls.
- Improve infrastructure efficiency and cost performance in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Build internal tooling that enables product engineers to focus on feature development rather than infrastructure overhead.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend, infrastructure, or platform engineer operating production SaaS systems at scale.
- Strong systems engineer with deep understanding of reliability, distributed systems, and operational failure modes.
- Comfortable owning CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production operations end-to-end.
- Advanced user of modern AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-based workflows).
- Strong coder (Node/TypeScript or similar); you build systems, not just configure tools.
- High-ownership, startup-oriented operator comfortable owning a broad platform surface area.
- Clear written and oral communicator who can document systems, write RFCs, and lead postmortems.

## Tech Stack
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- GitHub Actions
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- RedwoodJS
- OpenAI API

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive base salary within $190,000–$260,000.
- Equity / stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program.
- Flexible PTO.

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