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Base Salary
$190k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Pelago’s event-driven data platform and production data pipelines.
- Manage Infrastructure as Code and deployment systems to make environments reproducible and releases safe.
- Build consistent patterns for integrating data sources and services.
- Deliver platform and data capabilities for analytics, reporting, and member-facing product features.
- Own observability, alerting, on-call operations, and incident response for services and data systems.
- Optimize AWS hosting and data costs while maintaining reliability.
- Build platform capabilities supporting agentic workflows.
- Partner with analytics, product, clinical, and commercial teams to define platform ownership and downstream use.
- Improve AI-assisted engineering practices, testing, documentation, knowledge sharing, and review quality.
Requirements
- Strong production experience as a backend, platform, or systems engineer in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and building and maintaining deployment pipelines.
- Strong experience designing, securing, and operating AWS cloud-native services.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript with Node across backend services, data pipelines, and tooling.
- Deep experience with event-driven architectures and data platforms, including Kafka or AWS-native streaming and messaging and production third-party data integrations.
- Strong observability and reliability skills, including monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for incorrect, late, or incomplete systems and data.
- Experience optimizing hosting costs and making cost-aware architecture decisions.
- Familiarity with agentic workflows and systems that support them.
- Strong relational database design and SQL skills.
- Strong product sense and ability to understand downstream platform use.
- Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous environments and make sound trade-offs.
- Fluency with AI-augmented engineering workflows while maintaining human judgment and QA discipline.
- Preferred: experience with dbt and data modeling, healthcare or regulated software, healthcare data integrations, marketing or engagement platforms, or building foundational systems from 0 to 1.
Benefits
- Hybrid full-time role requiring three days per week in the NYC office.
- Total compensation includes an incentive bonus program, stock options, comprehensive benefits, and applicable incentive pay.
- Pelago provides candidate accommodations upon request during the interview process.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsProduct Engineering
About Pelago
Pelago provides a virtual clinic for substance use management, combining digital programs, live counseling, CBT, and medication-assisted treatment for alcohol, tobacco, opioid, cannabis, and stimulant use. It sells to employers and health plans as a confidential benefit for members, delivered through an integrated care platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company closed a Series C round in 2024 and publishes peer-reviewed outcomes on clinical impact and medical cost savings.