Platform Engineer

Yuzu•New York City, NY

10d

About The Position

Yuzu is building foundational technology for customizable, self-funded health plans as a vertically integrated, technology-enabled third-party administrator. The Platform team’s priority is to make it fast, easy, and safe for Yuzu’s engineering teams to build and operate software as the company and its systems scale. As a product-minded Platform Engineer, you will build application code, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling in close collaboration with the product teams that use them. You will identify and address gaps in performance, developer experience, and quality before they become bottlenecks. The role involves balancing teams’ needs, setting practical standards, building shared solutions where appropriate, and creating clear, safe, observable systems that other engineers can extend. The work may include making production-like data available for debugging without exposing protected health information, improving authentication and authorization across complex relationships, and unifying the public API experience. Yuzu offers significant ownership, equity, and autonomy, and commits to supporting your learning and sharing information about the business.

Requirements

Excitement about learning unfamiliar systems and sharing what you learn; prior experience in Yuzu’s industry, technology stack, or a platform team is not required.
Ability to identify opportunities for impact.
Uses AI to accelerate their work and is interested in maintaining consistency and quality as the pace of change increases.
Able to work self-directed in a small team without a dedicated product manager, from identifying problems through delivery.
Able to judge when work should be handled independently, escalated, collaborative, or delegated.

Nice To Haves

Experience being on call or otherwise responsible for a significant production system.
Experience scaling a system from small to large.
Experience with systems involving significant reliability, security, privacy, payments, or compliance requirements.
Experience coordinating across teams at a large organization.
Experience at a startup whose engineering team grew substantially beyond its founders.

Responsibilities

Build application code, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling for engineering teams.
Identify and close gaps in performance, developer experience, and software quality.
Work closely with product teams that depend on Platform systems.
Gather input across teams, make tradeoffs visible, and set direction when no playbook exists.
Establish standards that are easy for teams to follow without creating unnecessary friction.
Build safe-default systems with clear interfaces, documentation, and meaningful observability.
Start with real bottlenecks, build the smallest useful solution, and improve it using evidence.
Help develop systems for scrubbing, synthesizing, restoring, and using production-like data without access to PHI.
Help design performant authentication and authorization, privacy, auditability, and self-service permissions.
Improve consistency for customers and engineers across external-facing API endpoints.
Use AI to accelerate engineering work and help discover high-leverage engineering practices; build CI systems that keep pace with change.
Independently identify, investigate, and solve problems, choosing when to work solo, escalate, collaborate, or delegate.