Senior / Staff Platform Engineer: DevOps + Site Reliability

About Amino

Amino has built a modern, user-friendly healthcare navigation app that empowers users to make informed and confident decisions around their healthcare. Our engineering team is small but mighty, and we are searching for a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer to act as a technical lead for the DevOps and Site Reliability disciplines.

We're a startup; you'll wear many hats and have an opportunity to impact the work across the organization. Most immediately, you’ll have an opportunity to work directly with the CTO as well as senior Security and Product leads to define and execute Amino’s 2024 internal platform roadmap.

What you will do

The platform team builds and maintains technology that supports the Availability of Amino’s applications, the Velocity of our development team, and the Security of our overall technology footprint, across our data, data science, application disciplines.

Some examples of big projects you might lead include:

• Simplify and consolidate our AWS organization architecture and shared tooling
• Improve Observability and Alerting across entire platform, and help level up our incident response processes
• Migrating the build, release, and run processes for our containerized services to Fargate
• Expand and improve our data orchestration tools in AWS (dbt + Dagster)
• Work with security + risk teams to continue shifting security and vulnerability management leftward
• Streamline Access and Data Privacy controls to improve internal developer experience and speed
• Teach security and infrastructure fundamentals to our product teams

Your skills and experience

If this is you, we believe you'll have a successful engineering career at Amino!

• You are highly autonomous and can design, scope, and lead platform infrastructure projects from high level guidance of business needs.
• You’ve led platform or infrastructure teams for cloud SaaS products and mentored developers with different backgrounds and levels of seniority.
• You have a track record of pragmatic choices that right-size platform infrastructure to business needs.
• You have a solid grasp and appreciation for programming fundamentals.
• You have experience with Linux server environments, AWS VPC networking, Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration systems.
• You’ve worked in environments with high standards for information security.
• You have strong problem-solving ability; you’re able to challenge assumptions and approach problems creatively.
• You welcome and can effectively give critical feedback.
• You value the impact of your work for our users as much as the technology itself.

The core technologies that Platform Engineers at Amino work with are:

• Python
• Terraform
• Postgres
• AWS
• Docker
• Dagster

About the Engineering team

We value patience, kindness, and generosity, and we love working in an environment of mutual respect where we are challenged every day. We take time to teach and learn from each other, and practice thorough and thoughtful code reviews.

We work on cross-functional teams with product managers and designers to build products from early-stage concepts all the way through to live web products. We ship early and often and strive for full test coverage.

We Offer

• Amino is a remote-first environment and is authorized to hire in the following states: CA, CO, FL, IL, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA
• Expected base salary: $165,000.00 to $215,000.00 plus standard company benefits and a generous option grant.
• We offer full-time employees an array of healthcare insurance options.
• 401(k) through Guideline.
• This position will have a good deal of autonomy. We provide every new Amino with a generous office set-up allowance plus a monthly stipend for internet/phone.
• Amino offers unlimited time off to full-time employees.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Covid-19 Policy

As a company focused on helping people live healthier lives, we believe that taking a cautious approach to protect each other against COVID-19 is aligned with our mission. All Amino personnel are expected to travel to attend in-person team gatherings from time to time, and Amino has therefore adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.