Senior Platform Engineer

The role

The Senior Platform Engineer will build and operate the shared platform, including CI/CD pipelines, service templates, and deployment tooling. They will own AWS infrastructure as code and partner with the architecture team to implement paved paths for engineering teams.

What you will do

• Build and operate the shared platform including CI/CD pipelines, service templates, and deployment tooling
• Own AWS infrastructure as code across multiple accounts in Terraform, CDK, or both
• Implement and sustain paved paths in partnership with architecture
• Operate platform services including on-call, incident response, and postmortems
• Build observability including metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerts
• Own platform security posture including identity, secrets, and network isolation in a HIPAA and SOC 2 environment
• Manage cloud spend through tagging discipline and cost visibility
• Use AI agents as part of daily workflow and build them into the platform
• Automate toil out of the platform
• Treat documentation and developer onboarding as part of the deliverable

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including ownership of production systems
• Deep AWS expertise including IAM policy evaluation, VPC routing, DNS, and container or serverless runtime behavior
• Hands-on ownership of a multi-account AWS environment
• Infrastructure as code in Terraform, CDK, or both
• Strong CI/CD engineering with shared or templated pipelines
• Experience working in or closely with a platform, infrastructure, or developer experience team
• Comfort with AI tooling in daily engineering work
• Production operations experience including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and SLO thinking
• Strong programming ability in at least one language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or a JVM language
• Sound judgment on security, secrets, access control, and data handling

Nice to have

• Healthcare or another regulated domain, including HIPAA and SOC 2 obligations
• Previous experience in a venture-backed high growth company
• GitLab CI at scale
• Datadog in depth
• Container orchestration at production scale, such as ECS or Kubernetes
• Building AI tooling such as MCP servers, Claude Code plugins or skills, or agent harnesses
• Dependency and currency automation, such as Renovate
• Delivery metrics work, including DORA
• Familiarity with Team Topologies vocabulary
• Experience decommissioning a platform capability

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's mission is to create health benefits for small and midsize businesses and their employees. The company is led by industry veterans and is well capitalized.