[Hiring] DevOps - Platform Engineer @August Health

Role Description

We're looking for a Platform Engineer who thrives at the intersection of reliability, security, and developer productivity. You'll be a core contributor to our infrastructure — owning the systems that keep August Health fast, secure, and resilient as we scale. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role. You'll work closely with our engineering team to shape how we build, deploy, and operate software — with real influence over architecture decisions and engineering culture.

• Infrastructure as code — managing and evolving our AWS infrastructure using Pulumi, with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and maintainability
• Kubernetes platform — operating and improving our K8s clusters: workload scheduling, resource management, networking, and observability
• CI/CD pipelines — owning and optimizing our GitHub Actions workflows to keep builds fast, feedback tight, and deployments safe
• Security & compliance — hardening our infrastructure posture, supporting audit readiness, and implementing controls that meet the requirements of operating in healthcare
• Data pipeline infrastructure — supporting the reliable operation of our data engineering workflows
• LLM tooling — deploying and maintaining prompt tracing, evaluation, and observability tools as we integrate AI capabilities into our product
• Network & access — managing secure, zero-trust connectivity via Tailscale across our distributed infrastructure
• Disaster recovery & incident response — designing, documenting, and regularly testing DR/IR processes so we're always ready

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS — particularly EKS, Cognito, Aurora, RDS, Lambda, and VPC; you can make smart tradeoff decisions across services and know when to reach for each
• Proficiency with Kubernetes in production — you've operated clusters at scale and know how to debug when things go wrong
• Experience with infrastructure as code , ideally Pulumi or a similar tool (Terraform, CDK)
• Comfort with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems — you've built and optimized pipelines, not just used them
• A security-minded approach — you think about least privilege, secrets management, and compliance by default; experience working toward or maintaining SOC 2 and/or HIPAA compliance is important, not just a nice-to-have
• Solid observability experience — you're comfortable with Prometheus, have instrumented backend services before, and can look at an existing metrics setup and form a point of view on what's missing or misleading
• Familiarity with data pipeline infrastructure , including tools like Snowflake and Apache NiFi
• Strong communication skills — you can explain infrastructure decisions to non-infrastructure engineers, and you write good documentation
• Self-direction — you can identify what needs doing, prioritize well, and drive projects to completion without heavy oversight

Requirements

• Experience with Tailscale or other zero-trust networking tools
• Ability to read and write backend code in Scala or Java — the ideal candidate is comfortable enough to review or contribute to application code, not just the infrastructure around it
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification from the Linux Foundation
• Prior work in a healthcare or other regulated industry , with hands-on experience maintaining SOC 2 or HIPAA compliance
• Experience deploying LLM observability or evaluation tooling (e.g., Langfuse, Phoenix, Helicone, or similar)

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation based on experience and ability, including significant equity option grants
• 100% company-paid premiums for health, dental, and vision coverage
• Company contributions to your HSA
• 2% 401(k) match
• Support for physical and mental health through services like Rightway Health Advocacy and Spring Health Mental Wellness
• Flexible time off policy
• 100% paid family leave
• All-expenses-paid, in-person company offsites twice a year