Senior Systems Engineer
About The Position
Xealth is revolutionizing healthcare by leveraging data and automation to empower care providers. We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to take full ownership of our AWS EKS Kubernetes platform and its supporting open-source ecosystem. This is a hands-on role focused on cluster reliability, observability, GitOps automation, and infrastructure-as-code. You will work closely with engineering teams to ensure the platform is resilient, secure, and continuously improving, with a focus on architectural thinking and automation rather than ticket-queue operations. The role requires a hybrid work schedule, with the office located in Seattle.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of hands-on systems/platform engineering experience
- Deep Kubernetes expertise, including scheduling, networking, storage, RBAC, and cluster internals
- Production experience running workloads on AWS EKS
- Strong Linux fundamentals (systemd, networking, kernel tuning, troubleshooting)
- Proficiency with Terraform for AWS infrastructure management
- Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or Flux in a production GitOps workflow
- Experience building and operating Prometheus/Grafana observability stacks
- Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry (collectors, instrumentation libraries, pipeline configuration)
- Programming and scripting experience with Python, Typescript, Bash
- Comfort operating in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Nice To Haves
- Experience with service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, or similar)
- Familiarity with Kafka in a Kubernetes context
- Secrets management experience (AWS Secrets Manager, or External Secrets Operator)
- Prior work at a healthcare or health-tech company
- Contributions to open source projects
Responsibilities
- Own the EKS cluster platform, including day-to-day operations, version lifecycle management, node group strategy, cluster upgrades, and capacity planning across environments.
- Own and evolve the ArgoCD-based GitOps delivery pipeline, enforce GitOps patterns, and drive consistency in service deployment.
- Build and maintain the Prometheus/Grafana observability platform, defining SLOs, alerting standards, and dashboards.
- Manage and extend Terraform codebases for AWS infrastructure, enforcing IaC standards and participating in code reviews.
- Lead the adoption and standardization of OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and log correlation.
- Own OS-level configuration, hardening, patching, and performance tuning for the compute fleet.
- Partner with engineering and security to enforce least-privilege IAM, secrets management, network policies, and audit readiness in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
Benefits
- Base salary compensation range: $145,000 - $160,000
- Bonus
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies (Xealth covers 100% of employee premiums)
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Laptop provided
- Home office stipend
- Generous learning & development opportunities
- 401k Match (dollar-for-dollar up to 5%)
- Flexible time off
- 10 standardized holidays
- $500 yearly fitness stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
