Staff Platform Engineer


Job Location:

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Yearly Salary: $ 100000 - 200000
Posted on: 12 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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About the Company

Our Client is building the future of healthcare technology through a modern AI-first platform designed to scale across hospitals regions and regulated environments.

As the company continues to grow theyre looking for experienced builders who thrive on solving difficult infrastructure challenges shipping quickly and taking complete ownership of the systems they create.

  • Location: Brazil (Remote)
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Work Authorization: Existing Brazilian work authorization required

About the Role

Were looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (Kubernetes AWS & GCP) to own and scale the platform infrastructure powering one of Latin Americas fastest-growing healthcare technology companies.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role not a management position. Youll design production architectures build platform capabilities from scratch own Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers improve developer experience and ensure the platform remains secure reliable and scalable as the business grows.

What Youll Do

Platform Engineering;

  • Design and own the platform architecture end-to-end
  • Build shared backend infrastructure APIs internal tooling and platform services
  • Develop infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
  • Drive platform scalability and reliability

Cloud & Kubernetes;

  • Manage Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP
  • Improve networking security scalability and workload orchestration
  • Design highly available multi-cloud infrastructure
  • Optimize platform performance and operational efficiency

Engineering & Automation;

  • Develop production backend services and platform tooling
  • Modernize and improve legacy systems
  • Build observability monitoring and incident response capabilities
  • Drive AI-assisted engineering workflows across the platform

Security & Compliance;

  • Own platform security and compliance initiatives
  • Build secure infrastructure supporting HIPAA LGPD ISO 27001 and similar standards
  • Implement secrets management audit logging and zero-trust networking

What Were Looking For

Must Have;

  • Extensive production experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong hands-on AWS and GCP experience
  • Backend engineering expertise
  • Experience designing and shipping platform architecture
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi Terraform or similar)
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems
  • Production observability and incident management experience
  • Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA SOC2 GDPR LGPD ISO 27001)
  • Strong software engineering and debugging skills
  • AI-first mindset with daily use of AI development tools
  • High ownership and builder mentality

Nice to Have;

  • Graph databases (Neo4j Amazon Neptune)
  • MongoDB or Firestore at scale
  • Healthcare infrastructure experience
  • FHIR APIs or EHR integrations
  • Technical leadership and mentoring experience
  • Service Mesh Platform Engineering or Developer Platform experience

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Equity opportunity
  • Fully remote work within Brazil
  • High ownership from day one
  • Direct collaboration with founders
  • Modern AI-first engineering culture
  • Opportunity to build platform infrastructure used at national scale
  • Work on meaningful healthcare technology with real-world impact

If youre excited about building world-class cloud infrastructure and solving large-scale platform challenges in a fast-moving AI healthcare startup wed love to hear from you...

About the Hiring Process When you apply our AI-powered matching platform considers you not only for this opportunity but also for other relevant roles across our network so one application can unlock multiple career opportunities. We only work with real companies hiring for live positions. Every opp...