Natera

Senior Platform Engineer

Natera
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4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$125k - $156k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate Natera’s Internal Developer Portal as a product with a platform foundation, roadmap, and adoption metrics.
  • Develop a trusted service catalog with ownership, relationships, and automated ingestion from source-of-truth systems.
  • Build integrations with cloud accounts, CI/CD systems, secrets management, and internal APIs.
  • Shape the golden path framework and develop Infrastructure Provisioning golden paths with networking, security, observability, and compliance built in.
  • Help other teams create and maintain portal-native golden paths through documentation, examples, pairing, and code review.
  • Re-envision existing pipelines, internal UIs, and procedures as self-service portal journeys and decommission superseded tooling.
  • Support AI-accessible platform capabilities through structured metadata, documented interfaces, and agent-consumable tooling.
  • Drive adoption by validating workflows with users, supporting onboarding, measuring friction, and developing platform and compliance scorecards.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering, including shared services used by multiple teams.
  • Solid experience with AWS, including IAM, multi-account environments, and EKS; Terraform; Kubernetes; and reusable CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong programming ability in at least one modern language and experience maintaining production software with testing, code review, and operational discipline.
  • Experience building or extending an internal developer portal, developer platform, or comparable self-service tooling, or closely transferable automation experience.
  • Experience redesigning scattered internal capabilities into coherent self-service workflows.
  • TypeScript and React, or equivalent application development experience in another modern language and framework.
  • Ability to own features or workstreams from design through production and ongoing support.
  • Fluent day-to-day use of AI coding assistants and agentic tooling, with interest in protocols such as MCP.
  • Experience treating internal engineers as customers and encoding change control, access review, and audit evidence into automation.
  • Clear written communication, including design documents, ADRs, and operational documentation.
  • Preferred experience with Backstage or Port, catalog modeling, templating, scaffolding, custom actions, or plugin development.
  • Preferred experience migrating internal tooling, using TechDocs or MkDocs, integrating platform search, operating PostgreSQL-backed web applications, and implementing internal-platform authentication and authorization with an external identity provider.
  • Contributions to open-source platforms or developer-experience projects are a bonus.

Benefits

  • Remote work within the USA.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and dependents.
  • Free testing for Natera employees and their immediate families, plus fertility care benefits.
  • Pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits, and an employee referral program.
Natera

About Natera

5,001-10,000 employees

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. We aim to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard-of-care to protect health and inform earlier, more targeted interventions that help lead to longer, healthier lives. Natera’s tests are supported by more than 325 peer-reviewed publications that demonstrate excellent performance. Natera operates ISO 13485-certified and CAP-accredited laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in Austin, Texas, and San Carlos, California, and through Foresight Diagnostics, its subsidiary, operates an ISO 27001-certified and CAP-accredited laboratory certified under CLIA in Boulder, Colorado. Please be advised that Natera will only reach out to candidates with an @natera.com email domain. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. https://www.natera.com/privacy/

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