Komodo Health
Staff Platform Engineer
$170K–$275K
United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 12, 2026
- Location
- United States
San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Leads technical direction for Komodo Health’s platform control plane and product-building tools, delivering secure, reliable, cost-effective services and enabling customer onboarding and developer productivity.
What you'll do
- Own platform architecture and core contracts for subscription services, identity/access, APIs, data models, events, and RBAC; deliver platform initiatives and services.
- Improve reliability and operations through observability, on-call support, incident escalation, and secure, maintainable infrastructure.
- Collaborate across product and customer-facing teams; mentor engineers and use AI tooling to improve engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- Expert-level backend engineering experience building and operating APIs and microservices at scale; Python and FastAPI preferred.
- Experience designing core platform primitives in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
- Profound experience with AWS core services and architecting secure, scalable, cost-efficient solutions.
- Ability to lead cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and design for system tradeoffs and observability.
Nice to have
- AWS cloud infrastructure certification; experience with data privacy concerns such as HIPAA or GDPR.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Redshift, SDKs, CLIs, and self-service tooling.
Pay
$196,000 — $275,000 USD annual base pay (San Francisco Bay Area and New York City); $170,000 — $240,000 USD annual base pay (All Other US Locations)
Tools
Python, FastAPI, AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
AI focus
Build custom MCP tooling and autonomous agents for interoperability and platform-task automation; integrate AI and LLM workflows into daily engineering and SDLC work, including tools such as Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
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