# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [Ambience Healthcare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ambience-healthcare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Docker, Kafka, SQS, Postgres, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-04-16

> Designs, builds, and maintains scalable platform infrastructure for AI healthcare platform, focusing on observability, reliability, and scalability. Owns full lifecycle of major AI stack initiatives with 5+ years experience in modern infrastructure.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Design and architect scalable, reliable platform infrastructure that underpins every product experience our clinicians depend on
- Anticipate system bottlenecks and proactively re-architect key components before they create issues for our customers
- Lead platform initiatives with high strategic value, accelerating speed of iteration while preventing accumulation of technical debt
- Hold the codebase to a high standard and contribute to engineering processes that encourage shipping quality code with confidence

## Who You Are

- You have 5+ years of experience tackling challenging zero-to-one software engineering problems that have spanned multiple teams
- You're comfortable working on a modern infrastructure stack, including cloud providers (e.g. **AWS**, **GCP**), containers (e.g. **Docker**), queuing systems (e.g. **SQS**, **Kafka**), and standard database technologies (e.g. **Postgres**)
- You have a demonstrated ability to own execution of ideas from inception through to successful outcomes
- You're willing to flex up and down the stack in order to take projects to the finish line
- You are a low-ego team player who prioritizes co-discovering the best ideas, even if they're not your own
- You value being a kind, encouraging, and supportive teammate
- You thrive in environments with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity

## Pay Transparency

We offer a base compensation range of approximately **$200,000–$265,000** per year, exclusive of equity. This intentionally broad range provides flexibility for candidates to tailor their cash and equity mix based on individual preferences. Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants, enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create.

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