Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Cohere Health

22h • Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering to help shape the future of how we build, deploy, and operate software at Cohere. In this role, you’ll drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience - building a platform that is scalable, reliable, and intuitive for engineers to use. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization, with a direct impact on how our teams ship software at scale.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads
• Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar) and hands-on experience with AWS, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of system design, observability, and production operations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), and messaging systems
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and proactively improve platform performance and developer productivity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable, reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure
• Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed
• Improve developer experience through CI/CD enhancements and faster feedback cycles
• Establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response
• Design environments that support consistent testing, validation, and safe releases
• Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match
• flexible spending and health savings account
• Flex Time Off + company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees