Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Improve the Medbridge Platform that product engineering teams use to build, test, deploy, and operate software.
• Work on CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment workflows, and release automation.
• Improve database reliability, performance, upgrade readiness, and operational practices.
• Help strengthen our testing platform so teams can validate changes more quickly and confidently.
• Reduce developer friction by improving local development, tooling, documentation, and shared engineering workflows.
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements.
• Lead or contribute to cross-team technical initiatives.
• Break down complex technical problems into clear plans and incremental delivery steps.
• Create reusable patterns, documentation, and standards that help teams move faster.
• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, including backend, platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, or shared engineering systems.
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing infrastructure, observability, and overall developer experience.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL or similar), including working within large, mature, or complex codebases.
• Prowess in safely improving and modernizing existing systems without unnecessary rewrites, while writing maintainable and testable code.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and technical planning skills with the ability to break down complex work into clear, executable steps.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership mindset with the ability to operate through ambiguity and improve systems relied on across teams.