Staff Platform Engineer

The role

This Staff Engineer will lead the technical direction for the core control plane, including KMC/PSS and App Builder + Connector. You will ensure the platform is reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy to build on while partnering with product and customer-facing teams.

What you will do

• Lead technical direction across KMC/PSS and App Builder + Connector
• Own and deliver major subscription service initiatives
• Act as technical owner of core platform contracts including APIs, data models, events, and RBAC patterns
• Architect and deploy custom MCP tooling and autonomous agents
• Contribute to the development of secure, reliable API endpoints and platform services
• Define and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform services
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support production systems
• Act as the escalation point for complex, cross-system incidents
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support feature rollouts
• Implement measures to enhance developer experience

Required qualifications

• Expert-level backend engineering experience (Python + FastAPI preferred) building and operating APIs and microservices at scale
• Strong debugging and technical troubleshooting skills
• Proven track record designing and evolving core platform primitives in a multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Profound experience with AWS core services
• Ability to architect secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and workflow tools (e.g., Snowflake, Airflow, Spark)
• Understanding of how to design for observability across complex distributed systems
• Ability to design solutions that balance performance, cost, maintainability, reliability, and developer experience
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-team projects to completion
• Ability to mentor other engineers
• Comfort leveraging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini)
• Interest in integrating LLM-based workflows into the SDLC

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS preferred
• AWS cloud infrastructure certification is a plus
• Experience with data privacy concerns such as HIPAA or GDPR
• Working knowledge of data modeling and storage across relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis), and MPP databases (Snowflake, Redshift)
• Prior experience in platform or infrastructure teams supporting internal and external developers, including SDKs, CLIs, and self-service tooling
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and with other customer-facing teams

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible time off and holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Leaves of absence in accordance with applicable laws

About the company

Komodo Health builds the Healthcare Map to reduce the global burden of disease. They use de-identified, real-world patient data and innovative algorithms to help clients unlock critical healthcare insights.