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Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Job Overview

Location

Santa Monica, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

August 8, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • Design and evolve platform architecture: 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.
  • • Build software that powers the platform: Develop tooling, services, and automation that improve developer productivity, reliability, and observability across the system.
  • • Own infrastructure as code and automation: Expand and harden our Terraform coverage, ensuring critical resources are versioned, auditable, and safely provisioned across environments.
  • • Design scalable, reliable system interactions: Contribute to the design of system interactions and data flows, making thoughtful architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and performance as the platform evolves.
  • • Improve reliability and operational signal: Build and evolve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines that surface meaningful signal rather than noise.
  • • Secure the platform and toolchain: Partner on securing CI/CD pipelines, access controls, networking, and data flows while supporting compliance efforts as we grow.
  • • Reduce toil and improve leverage: Identify repetitive or high-friction work and eliminate it through automation, better abstractions, or new tooling, including leveraging AI where it meaningfully helps.
  • • Partner with engineering teams: Operate as a partner to feature teams, helping unblock delivery, improve systems, and ensure platform decisions reflect real-world needs.
  • • 5+ 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

🎯 Requirements

  • • 5+ 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

🏖️ 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

Skills & Technologies

Python
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Senior
Remote
Degree Required

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About Pivotal Health Inc.

Pivotal Health is a health technology company focused on improving the healthcare experience for patients and providers. They offer a platform designed to streamline administrative tasks, enhance patient engagement, and provide data-driven insights for healthcare organizations. Their solutions aim to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and ultimately lead to better health outcomes. Pivotal Health operates within the digital health and health IT sectors, leveraging technology to address challenges in healthcare delivery and management. The company is committed to innovation and creating a more connected and accessible healthcare ecosystem.

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