Build the backbone of virtual behavioral healthcare at scale. Charlie Health needs a Senior Platform Engineer to own core services, cloud infra, CI/CD, and automation—so clinicians can deliver life-saving care without friction.
About Charlie Health
Charlie Health delivers personalized, virtual behavioral health treatment for people with complex needs. We connect clients, clinicians, families, and communities to expand access and improve outcomes—nationwide, from home.
Schedule
- Remote, United States (core collaboration hours: 12–5pm EST)
- Hybrid expectation if within ~75 minutes of NYC (4 days/week in office)
- Agile environment (Scrumban-style, 2-week sprints) with trunk-based development and frequent production deploys
- Participates in an on-call rotation
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain platform services and shared libraries (Python, TypeScript, Golang)
- Architect and operate AWS infrastructure with Terragrunt + OpenTofu (Terraform)
- Build and optimize CI/CD in GitHub Actions; streamline safe, frequent deploys
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and monitoring (Bash/Golang/Python)
- Enforce security best practices (IAM, networking, HIPAA-aligned controls)
- Drive reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency across services
- Partner with product/security/data/ML teams to deliver new platform capabilities
- Break down large initiatives into measurable milestones and ship incremental value
- Mentor engineers; improve developer experience by abstracting common patterns
- Join the on-call rotation and lead timely incident response
What You Need
- 3+ years in Platform/DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering and 2+ years writing production backends
- Deep AWS experience (e.g., ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Aurora, SQS, EventBridge, EC2, ECR)
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, or TypeScript
- Strong IaC skills with Terraform/OpenTofu; Terragrunt experience a plus
- CI/CD expertise (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins) and containerization (Docker; orchestration)
- Observability fluency (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Loki, Sumo Logic, OpsGenie)
- Proven ability to decompose complex problems and deliver iteratively
- Hands-on on-call experience troubleshooting distributed systems
- Clear communicator who thrives in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup
Nice to Have: migrations to microservices, Linux/admin/networking/security depth, AI-enabled dev tooling exposure, SDET/QA/perf testing background.
Benefits
- Target base compensation: $150,000–$200,000 (location/experience dependent)
- Equity potential; comprehensive medical, dental, vision
- 401(k) and additional Charlie Health benefits
- High-impact mission, real ownership, rapid growth environment
Ship platform that ships care—your work unlocks dozens of safe deploys a week and measurable patient impact.
Shape the platform. Scale the mission. Change lives from your terminal.
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