Senior Software Engineer - Product Platform Engineering
Pivotal Health9 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or Santa Monica, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own platform components end to end, including services, libraries, and schemas, from design through production.
- Build composable abstractions and well-defined interfaces that product teams can extend and reuse.
- Design scalable, reliable system interactions and data flows while balancing scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and testing pipelines to provide meaningful operational signal.
- Reduce operational toil through abstractions, tooling, and AI-assisted tooling where useful.
- Partner with product teams to unblock delivery and ensure platform decisions reflect customer and team needs.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend or platform software engineering experience.
- Strong software engineering foundation and coding skills, with Python preferred.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, with GCP preferred.
- Experience with relational databases, data modeling, and production schema evolution.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or Kinesis.
- Ability to work across authorization, messaging infrastructure, data pipelines, and other evolving domains.
- Strong product judgment, customer orientation, self-direction, and collaboration skills.
- Extra-credit experience with OIDC, SAML, SSO, sessions, RBAC, transactional email, messaging infrastructure, data ingestion, ML model production tooling, internal libraries, SDKs, developer tooling, automation, AI-assisted tooling, TypeScript, React, startup environments, or regulated industries.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including equity.
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Flexible time off.
- Company-wide connection and event opportunities.
- Remote and hybrid flexibility varies by role and team; the company primarily hires around Los Angeles and New York while considering candidates outside those regions.
About Pivotal Health
Pivotal Health builds an AI-driven platform that streamlines complex reimbursement workflows for healthcare providers, including disputing underpaid insurance claims and managing IDR processes. It sells software-plus-services to hospitals and physician groups to reduce administrative burden and recover fair payment. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Pivotal Health is privately held.