Senior Platform Engineer

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Princeton, NJ
5-7 Years Experience
Healthtech
The Role
Senior Platform Engineer responsible for leading a new Platform team in building and supporting business-critical services within an AWS cloud hosting environment for a healthcare startup. Responsibilities include providing architecture, solutioning, implementation support, leading projects, developing CI/CD pipelines, maintaining environments, implementing observability tools, and championing infrastructure-as-code approaches.
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RxSense is a high-growth healthtech company empowering clients and consumers with technology to access lower cost prescription drugs. Its transformative cloud-based enterprise platform enables clients to take control of their pharmacy benefits with fast, flexible and customizable solutions and real time data insights to improve operational and financial performance -- and ultimately deliver better care to patients nationwide. RxSense also owns and operates SingleCare, a free prescription savings service that offers consumers access to consistently low prices on prescription drugs. Through its partnerships with the country’s largest pharmacies and grocers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons, SingleCare improves access and adherence to more affordable medications and has helped millions of Americans collectively save over $8 billion on their medications.

RxSense is a great place to work! Our company has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Top Startup Employers, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, and Inc’s Best in Business and Best Workplaces.


  • Take a lead role as part of a new Platform team in building and supporting business-critical services within an AWS cloud hosting environment for a growing, fast-paced healthcare startup
  • Provide architecture, solutioning, and implementation support for technical requirements using modern architectural approaches including containers, Kubernetes, AWS tools, services, and serverless. Write code/scripts as part of the solution as necessary
  • Lead Platform engineer projects as part of the DevOps team with a focus on taking all necessary steps for delivery, such as stakeholder communication and change management planning
  • Develop, troubleshoot, and maintain the continuous integration and deployment pipelines in close partnership with the application engineering teams
  • Understand the application and deployment environments and work closely with engineers, QA, and DBAs to ensure all environments are functional and configured correctly
  • Design and implement and observability and alerting tools such as CloudWatch and New Relic for proactive responses to all technical issues
  • Document troubleshooting steps/runbooks/procedures via an internal knowledge base and work to share knowledge among team members
  • Champion and implement workflows, CI/CD pipelines and build processes primarily using Github, Github actions, and Octopus.
  • Help grow and champion infrastructure-as-code approaches via Terraform, Cloudformation, or AWS CDK
  • Maintain and drive the code repository initiatives and standards which include security, maintenance, and secrets management.



  • 5+ years’ experience in a DevOps, SRE, engineering, or related role
  • Bachelor’s degree or better from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience
  • Ability to work independently (you answer your own questions when you can) and see tasks through to completion.
  • Willingness and ability to learn technologies and tools quickly to take advantage of the latest technical advances in a fast-changing cloud environment.
  • Good knowledge of essential AWS components, services, and networks (EC2, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, IAM). Experience with other components (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, EMR) is a plus
  • Strong troubleshooting skills. Ability to see the big picture and system components and dependencies from a higher-level view in order to assess the problem. Willingness to own an issue until it’s resolved.
  • Past software engineering experience is a big plus as this role will have a focus on the software development aspects of a Platform Engineer role.
  • Comfort in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or Powershell (Python and Powershell are typically used internally) and one infrastructure-as-code approach (Terraform,). Experience with other languages is a plus.
  • Flexible, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes or container technology.
  • Knowledge of Code Repositories, and Code deployment tools.
  • Strong communication skills.

Salary Range: 136,000 - 163,000

RxSense believes that a diverse workforce is a more talented and productive workforce. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our recruitment process is free from discriminatory hiring practices and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin.  Neither will qualified applicants be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.  We believe in the strength of the collaboration, creativity and sense of community a diverse workforce brings. 

Top Skills

AWS
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
The Company
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
280 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

RxSense (www.rxsense.com) is a high growth and mission-driven healthcare technology company that provides sophisticated cloud-based enterprise solutions for flexible, efficient, and transparent pharmacy benefits administration, claims processing and advanced analytics serving pharmacy benefit managers, health plans, health systems, as well as new and non-traditional industry entrants. RxSense also utilizes its advanced platform and direct contracts with the nation's largest pharmacies (including CVS, Walmart and Walgreens) to deliver consistently low prices direct to consumers on prescription drugs through its SingleCare (www.singlecare.com)prescription savings services. RxSense's mission is to deliver industry leading technology solutions that improve healthcare transparency and access to more affordable medications for millions across America.

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