Principal Backend Engineer
Qualified Health PBC6 hours ago
Base Salary
$230k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and long-term technical vision for scalable core platform services.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from concept through production and document high-stakes technical trade-offs.
- Write and review critical backend code while setting standards for quality, maintainability, security, and performance.
- Drive infrastructure automation, observability, monitoring, alerting, reliability targets, and incident response practices.
- Partner with product, security, compliance, and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into platform capabilities.
- Mentor Senior and Staff engineers and develop technical leadership across the team.
- Lead technical reviews, architecture decisions, and durable technical documentation.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for production issues, root cause analysis, and systemic fixes.
- Evaluate emerging generative AI technologies and make build-versus-buy recommendations.
- Contribute to engineering planning by scoping, sequencing, and de-risking major milestones.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing, shipping, and operating a generative AI application or platform in production at scale.
- Deep expertise in Python, working proficiency in TypeScript or Java, and hands-on experience with Go or Rust.
- Experience architecting secure, resilient, and observable distributed systems, microservices, and APIs.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Strong command of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability tooling.
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Technical leadership experience across teams, including architecture influence and mentoring engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineers, executives, and customers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Ability to work onsite in the Palo Alto offices three days per week.
- Preferred experience includes GCP and familiarity with all three major cloud providers, AI/ML platforms, LLM serving, evaluation and monitoring, regulated environments such as HIPAA or SOC 2, frontend technologies, healthcare, and early-stage engineering team building.
Benefits
- $230,000–$280,000 pay range depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
- Equity package.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
- Inclusive environment focused on creativity and innovation.
- Onsite work in Palo Alto three days per week.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSAzureDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonPyTorchReactRustTensorFlowTerraformTypeScriptVue.js
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About Qualified Health PBC
Qualified Health PBC builds an enterprise AI platform for health systems, combining workflow automation, generative AI agent development, clinical safeguards, real-time monitoring, and end-to-end governance. The company sells software and partnership-based deployment services to drive measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals and health networks. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it reports reach to over 500,000 users across top U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including NEA, Transformation Capital, and SignalFire.