Gravie

Staff Platform Engineer

Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

This Staff Platform Engineer will build paved paths for engineering teams, define north star architecture, and design AI-enabled capabilities. The role acts as a technical hub to establish standards and deliver distributed systems and AI agent systems.

What you will do

  • Build paved paths including reference implementations, shared libraries, service templates, scaffolding, and pipeline templates
  • Measure adoption and time to first success for paved roads
  • Build distributed systems patterns including backend services, event-driven workers, job pipelines, APIs, and relational data models
  • Partner with the Platform Engineering team to build paved paths and plan roadmaps
  • Own migration and adoption of services onto the path
  • Define and publish target-state architecture
  • Own AWS foundations including multi-account structure, identity boundaries, network, data isolation, compute, and cost governance
  • Drive standards adoption from documents into pipelines
  • Design and build production-grade AI agent systems, orchestration layers, and supporting services
  • Design retrieval, context, and memory systems for AI outputs

Required qualifications

  • Eight or more years of software engineering experience
  • Experience with architecture scope and organization-wide remit
  • Experience with ownership of complex systems from design through production
  • Experience building internal platform capability that other teams voluntarily adopted
  • Hands-on experience building and operating production AI applications
  • Deep AWS expertise across a multi-account organization
  • Infrastructure as code in Terraform, CDK, or both
  • Track record of establishing architectural foundations
  • Hands-on experience with agentic software development
  • Deep expertise in at least one primary area (Python or JVM backend and distributed systems, or React and TypeScript product engineering)
  • Experience with retrieval, embeddings, context, memory, evaluation, monitoring, or AI agent architectures and workflows
  • Clear written communication and effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have

  • Healthcare, health insurance, or benefits administration, including ICHRA, claims, eligibility and enrollment, or interoperability standards such as EDI and FHIR
  • Previous experience in a venture-backed high growth company
  • Internal developer platform or developer experience work
  • Experience with GitLab CI at scale
  • Production observability and LLM observability practice, including Datadog
  • Event-driven and streaming architecture, such as Kafka or Flink
  • Practical experience with agent tooling and standards such as Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol, and agent SDKs
  • Experience defining an AI governance or technology radar process

Benefits

  • Alternative medicine coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Paid holidays
  • 401k program
  • Transportation perks
  • Education reimbursement
  • 2 days of paid paw-ternity leave

About the company

Gravie creates health benefits for small and midsize businesses and their employees. The company is led by industry veterans and is well capitalized.