Pelago
Product Engineer, Platform
$190K–$200K
New York, NY +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Manhattan, New York, United States - Experience
- Strong production experience; no specific number of years stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to offer visa sponsorship.
About the job
Own and evolve Pelago’s AWS platform and event-driven data systems to support reliable, secure analytics and member-facing healthcare products.
What you'll do
- Build and operate data pipelines, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and alerting.
- Develop reusable patterns for integrating data sources and services; support analytics, reporting, and member-facing features.
- Optimize AWS and data costs, participate in on-call and incident response, and build platform capabilities for agentic workflows.
What they ask for
- Production experience as a backend, platform, or systems engineer in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure As Code experience, CI/CD pipeline experience, and strong AWS experience.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript (Node); deep experience with event-driven architectures, data platforms, and production data integrations.
- Strong observability and reliability skills, relational database design and SQL, and a cost-conscious, product-oriented approach.
Nice to have
- Experience with dbt and data modeling.
- Healthcare, digital health, regulated software, sensitive health data, or healthcare data-source integrations experience.
Pay
$190,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Python, TypeScript (Node), Kafka, dbt, SQL
AI focus
Use AI across the software development lifecycle and build platform capabilities for agentic workflows; maintain human judgment and quality assurance.
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