Staff Software Engineer | Platform Team
Staff Platform Engineer building foundational systems for a healthcare AI company. Responsibilities include scaling inherited Scala services, redesigning ML data layers, developing a Rust framework, improving observability/resilience, shaping developer tooling, and driving company-wide AI tool adoption. Requires strong systems thinking, distributed systems experience, and full-stack proficiency across JVM, Rust, Python, and Spark.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Dig into inherited Scala systems to find where the real problems are, separate symptoms from causes, and make them scale
- Redesign the data layer our ML and AI products depend on — this is an open, hard problem
- Build out a Rust framework that lets teams ship correct, performant services without reinventing fundamentals
- Improve observability and resilience across the platform so we find problems before our customers do
- Shape developer tooling and engineering standards — your work multiplies everyone else's effectiveness
- Drive AI tool adoption across the company, figuring out what actually helps engineers work better
- Work across the full stack: JVM (Java/Scala), Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark
What You Bring
What matters most:
- Systems thinking. You see how pieces connect. When something breaks, you reason about the whole system, not just the component in front of you.
- Fearless code reading. You can drop into a large, unfamiliar codebase, build a mental model, and figure out what needs to change.
- Empathy for users. Whether it's a developer using your framework or an operator reading your error messages, you design for the people downstream.
- Testing discipline. You test thoroughly not because someone requires it, but because you've shipped enough software to know what happens when you don't.
- Comfort with ambiguity. Our hardest problems don't come with specifications. You're energized, not paralyzed, by that.
Technical skills
- Proficiency in JVM ecosystem (Java, Scala)
- Experience with Rust highly desired
- Python
- SQL and data processing (Spark or similar)
- Distributed systems design
- Observability and resilience engineering
What We Offer
- Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
- Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
- FSA/HSA
- Tuition reimbursement
- Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
- Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work
Pay range: $220,000-255,000 (total compensation includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks)
Skills
Java, Scala, Rust, Python, SQL, Spark, Distributed Systems, Observability, Resilience Engineering
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