The Principal Platform Engineer will architect secure cloud platforms, implement CI/CD pipelines, and utilize DevOps expertise to enhance healthcare technologies.
We are a rapidly growing, Boston-based medical technology company using AI to help clinicians make more informed decisions on cardiovascular care - leading to better patient outcomes, improved quality of care, and reduced healthcare costs. Come work at Elucid and be part of delivering on our mission to prevent heart attacks and strokes!
We’re seeking a Principal Platform Engineer who’s passionate about building resilient cloud platforms that drive real-world impact in healthcare. In this role, you’ll architect secure, automated infrastructure in an FDA-regulated environment, implement advanced CI/CD pipelines and champion infrastructure-as-code practices that enable teams to deliver faster and smarter. By applying your DevOps expertise and AWS mastery, you’ll accelerate the development of cutting-edge medical-imaging SaaS solutions that have the ability to transform patient care.
The ideal candidate will have:
We’re seeking a Principal Platform Engineer who’s passionate about building resilient cloud platforms that drive real-world impact in healthcare. In this role, you’ll architect secure, automated infrastructure in an FDA-regulated environment, implement advanced CI/CD pipelines and champion infrastructure-as-code practices that enable teams to deliver faster and smarter. By applying your DevOps expertise and AWS mastery, you’ll accelerate the development of cutting-edge medical-imaging SaaS solutions that have the ability to transform patient care.
The ideal candidate will have:
- 7+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform-focused software engineering experience in an agile environment and expertise with at least one coding language (Ruby, Python, Rust, Go, etc.)
- Extensive hands-on experience creating and supporting AWS Environments using, but not limited to: ECS, EFS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, VPC, Route53.
- Experience developing infrastructure-as-code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.
- Experience with containerization and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, etc.).
- Experience building and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.).
- Experience with infrastructure and application monitoring tools such as DataDog, NewRelic or similar.
- Strong organization, collaboration and communication skills.
- This role is based out of our office in Boston, MA. We operate in a hybrid model with regular in-office collaboration.
- This role participates in on-call rotation that provides coverage on business days from 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM. The rotation is shared among all team members and generally occurs for 2–3 weeks per quarter.
- The anticipated base salary range for this position at Elucid is $170,000-$205,000. Compensation will be influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to internal pay equity, job-related knowledge, skills, education, relevant experience, certifications, and geography as outlined in the job description.
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