[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer - AI

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, aiming to make health data secure, accessible, and actionable. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to guide the architecture of their AI platform, ensuring it operates reliably while mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical contracts for agent management.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the AI Platform's core architecture alongside the VP of AI Platform Engineering and a small group of senior engineers
• Establish the platform's technical contracts: how agents register, how they prove identity, how their actions get attributed, audited, and constrained at runtime
• Set the technical bar for the team. Mentor two to three engineers, review the work that ships, and author the design documents future hires will read to understand how things are built
• Design how the AI Platform interlocks with the rest of engineering: the platform teams whose substrate it builds on, and the product teams whose work it serves
• Carry the pager. Operate what you build

Skills

• Ten or more years as a software engineer building production platforms, with at least three at Staff IC level or equivalent technical-lead seniority
• Deep experience designing and operating cloud-native, Kubernetes-based platforms in production. AWS experience is a plus
• Hands-on fluency with at least one mainstream LLM application stack (LangGraph, Bedrock AgentCore, or equivalent), or strong adjacent platform experience plus willingness to learn quickly
• Depth in workload identity and access management: service identity, short-lived credentials and token exchange, and key management (SPIFFE/SPIRE, OAuth token exchange, KMS-backed signing, or equivalent)
• Strong written communication. Architecture decision records and design documents are reviewed before implementation begins on this team
• You operate as a peer to senior engineers and leaders outside your team, not as a customer
• Personal experience using AI tools in your own engineering work (Claude Code, Cursor, custom MCP servers, agentic side projects, or similar) is valued. We want teammates who use the tools they build platforms for
• Healthcare data experience (PHI, HIPAA, BAA workflows) or other regulated-platform background (FedRAMP, HITRUST / HITRUST AI, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2 Type 2) is a strong plus

Benefits

• Post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc.
• Exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
• Datavant is committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive.
• Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
• Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination.
• Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
• Voluntary demographic questions at the end of the application to help identify areas for improvement in recruitment process; responses are anonymous and optional.
• Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
• Requests for reasonable accommodations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

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