Principal Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will own the technical debt roadmap and drive platform modernization using an agentic software development lifecycle. You will lead a platform team to build and operate AI-native engineering workflows and distributed systems on Google Cloud.

What you will do

• Own the platform technical debt roadmap from prioritization to delivery
• Lead the convergence of platform generations using incremental migration patterns
• Build and operate an AI-native engineering workflow using multi-agent orchestration
• Design context agents depend on including architecture context and runbooks
• Drive architectural decisions across the GCP platform
• Design for scale, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Write technical designs and ADRs
• Define and improve SLOs, observability, and alerting
• Build security and privacy into every layer including PHI handling
• Serve as technical lead for the platform team and mentor engineers

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Several years at Staff level or equivalent leading architecture and technical direction
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable, reliable distributed systems and microservices in production
• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud
• Strong, production-grade Python skills including async services and APIs
• Real experience delivering production software with AI coding agents
• Experience building software in healthcare or another regulated environment that handles PHI or PII
• Working understanding of HIPAA
• Track record of raising standards through design reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action
• Ability to write clear technical designs and lead and mentor engineers without formal authority

Nice to have

• Production experience with Go microservices
• Experience with EHR integrations (Epic/Cerner, FHIR/HL7) and the payer/provider ecosystem
• Hands-on contribution to SOC 2, HITRUST, or NIST-aligned control implementation
• Experience leading large-scale re-architectures or platform migrations
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• Data pipelines with dbt and BigQuery
• Ambition to grow into a Principal Software Engineer or Software Architect role

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Equity in Blooming Health
• Fully remote work
• Access to office space in New York
• A driven, passionate team and a culture that values transparency, mutual respect, and collaboration
• An entrepreneurial environment with room to grow
• The opportunity to join a fast-growing company transforming social care

About the company

Blooming Health is on a mission to transform social care using an AI-powered platform. The platform identifies social needs and drives action through automated outreach in 55+ languages and dialects.