Staff Platform Engineer | Komodo Health

Join Komodo Health as a Staff Platform Engineer, where you will lead the technical direction of our core control plane and platform services. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to improve onboarding, platform reliability, and developer experience. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, system design, and backend engineering will be crucial in scaling our platform and making our data and services more accessible.

About the role

- Platform & Control Plane Experience: Proven track record designing and evolving core platform primitives (e.g., authentication/authorization, orgs/accounts, subscriptions, or similar control-plane systems) in a multi-tenant SaaS environment - Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-team projects to completion, mentor other engineers, and collaborate effectively with product managers, data scientists, and customer-facing teams - System Design & Tradeoffs: Ability to design solutions that thoughtfully balance non-functional concerns such as performance, cost, maintainability, reliability, and developer experience - Cloud Infrastructure: Profound experience with AWS core services and the ability to architect secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions from high-level requirements - Data & Observability: Familiarity with modern data platforms and workflow tools (e.g., Snowflake, Airflow, Spark) and an understanding of how to design for observability (metrics, logs, traces, events) across complex distributed systems - AI & Productivity: Comfort leveraging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini) and interest in integrating LLM-based workflows into the SDLC to improve engineering velocity and quality - Engineering Excellence: Expert-level backend engineering experience (Python + FastAPI preferred) building and operating APIs and microservices at scale, with strong debugging and technical troubleshooting skills - Experience with AWS preferred. AWS cloud infrastructure certification is a plus - Working knowledge of data modeling and storage across relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis), and MPP databases (Snowflake, Redshift) - Experience with data privacy concerns such as HIPAA or GDPR - Prior experience in platform or infrastructure teams supporting internal and external developers, including SDKs, CLIs, and self-service tooling - Experience working with cross-functional teams and with other customer-facing teams - Passion! We hope you are passionate about our mission and technology - Ownership! We hope you own your work, be accountable, and push it through the finish line. We hope you treat yourself as a cofounder and do not hesitate to share any idea that helps Komodo - Expertise! We do not need you to know everything, but we hope you have deep knowledge in at least one area and can start contributing quickly. And we would love to learn from you in your area(s) of expertise as well

Key missions

Lead the technical direction across KMC/PSS and App Builder + Connector, ensuring the platform is reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy to build on.
Own and deliver at least one major subscription service initiative, improving time-to-onboard and operator efficiency for internal teams.
Act as the escalation point for complex, cross-system incidents touching KMC, Connector, and App Builder, combining fast triage with deeper investigation to protect customer experience and platform reliability.