Platform Engineer L2

Curative HR LLC • Austin, TX

5h • Remote

About The Position

Curative is hiring a Platform Engineer (L2) for its Platform team, which creates a productive environment for application developers to experiment and ship business features and systems. The team owns cloud infrastructure, developer experience tooling, CI/CD, and shared platform services. Its primary stack is AWS, OpenTofu, Python, and Go.

In this fully remote role, you will own meaningful infrastructure components end to end, designing, deploying, and maintaining services used by other engineers. Work is organized around projects of roughly four weeks, and the role involves shipping infrastructure changes with minimal day-to-day guidance while developing expertise in cloud architecture, reliability, and developer tooling.

Curative describes itself as an employer-based health insurance company whose plan aims to make care accessible through a monthly premium with $0 copays and $0 deductibles. The company says it is scaling and investing in AI-powered service, member engagement, and its provider network.

Requirements

• A few years of professional experience as a software, platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineer, including experience at more than one organization.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider; AWS is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, such as OpenTofu, Terraform, or an equivalent.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python or Go, and willingness to work in both.
• Solid fundamentals in networking, storage, and monitoring.
• Ability to independently debug production issues and clearly communicate findings.
• Comfort participating in an on-call rotation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a regulated industry such as healthcare or finance, with compliance requirements such as HIPAA.
• Exposure to Kubernetes (EKS) or other container orchestration.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus.
• Background in developer experience or internal platform work.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain infrastructure with OpenTofu, focusing on fault tolerance and operational simplicity.
• Own the lifecycle of services and subsystems, including design, deployment, production support, and ongoing improvements.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines so application teams can ship safely and quickly.
• Investigate and resolve moderately complex infrastructure and performance issues, developing structured troubleshooting habits.
• Integrate security and compliance considerations, including HIPAA, into infrastructure decisions.
• Participate in architecture design discussions and help engineers across the organization navigate cloud and automation frameworks.
• Contribute to platform reliability improvements and engineering process optimization.
• Lead small-scale projects by scoping work, managing timelines, and coordinating with teammates.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for systems owned by the team.

Benefits

• Curative Health Plan with 100% employer-covered medical premiums for the employee and 50% coverage for dependents on the base plan.
• Plan features include $0 copays and $0 deductibles with completion of a Baseline Visit, preventive and primary care, mental health support, one-on-one care navigation, chronic condition programs, maternity and family planning support, 24/7/365 telehealth, and pharmacy benefits.
• Comprehensive dental and vision coverage.
• Employer-provided life and disability coverage, with additional supplemental options.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Generous PTO policy and 11 paid annual company holidays.
• 401(k) for full-time employees.
• Up to 8–12 weeks of paid parental leave, based on role eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed