Zocdoc

Staff Platform Engineer, AI Enablement

Zocdoc
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8 days ago

Base Salary

$210k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build secure, scalable platform services, developer tooling, shared infrastructure patterns, and AI-powered developer workflows.
  • Contribute to Zocdoc’s internal developer platform strategy, including paved roads, shared tooling, and workflows for technical and non-technical builders.
  • Create guardrails, access controls, onboarding paths, and operational workflows that enable non-technical teams to use AI tools safely.
  • Define software development lifecycle practices for non-traditional builders, including credential management, testing, support, and contribution workflows.
  • Own platform investments end to end from problem framing through implementation, rollout, adoption, and measurement.
  • Improve build times, deployment safety, AI tool adoption, reliability, and operational simplicity.
  • Partner with engineering and business teams to identify needs, validate platform investments, and drive adoption.
  • Advance AI-assisted development practices and establish safe, high-quality, testable ways for Zocdoc builders to use generative AI.
  • Mentor engineers and technologists, review architecture and code, and help maintain security, compliance, and reliability standards.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, productivity tooling, or CI/CD systems used by multiple teams.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems in AWS or similar cloud environments.
  • Strong judgment regarding platform abstractions, APIs, standardization, and flexibility.
  • Ability to break ambiguous problems into deliverable pieces and drive measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience or strong informed opinions regarding guardrails, access controls, and safe onboarding for non-engineers using AI tools.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools into daily workflows to automate tasks and improve productivity.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Ability to collaborate, adapt to changing priorities, and model learning, curiosity, empathy, and operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment for employees based in NYC; the role is open to remote work.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • 100% paid employee health benefit options, including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) with employer-funded match.
  • Corporate wellness program through Wellhub.
  • Sabbatical leave for employees with 5+ years of service.
  • Paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement.
  • Cell phone reimbursement.
  • Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs.
  • Great Place to Work Certified.

Tech Stack

Categories

Zocdoc

About Zocdoc

501-1,000 employees

Zocdoc is the healthcare access infrastructure that connects patients to great care. By powering seamless scheduling wherever patients are seeking care, Zocdoc helps them move from being stuck to being seen. Each month, millions of patients find and book appointments with providers, powered by Zocdoc—on the company’s website and app, and across online search, insurance directories, providers’ websites, practice phone lines, AI platforms, and more—with the typical appointment happening within 24 to 72 hours from booking. With nearly two decades of experience unifying healthcare’s fragmentation, Zocdoc is uniquely positioned to power access across insurance plans, EHRs and PMS systems, specialties, visit types, and provider organizations of every size. By fixing healthcare at the start, Zocdoc empowers patients to get the care they need, when they need it, while delivering scaled patient growth providers can count on.

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