Job Summary
DevOps & Platform Architect – Staff EngineerOverview
We are seeking an experienced DevOps & Platform Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, and modernization of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and AI capabilities across the organization.
This role will serve as a key architect for next-generation engineering platforms, driving the vision and adoption of self-service engineering, deployment automation, environment management, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong architecture leadership and a passion for transforming engineering productivity, operational resilience, and software delivery at scale.
As the DevOps & Platform Architect, you will partner with engineering, operations, and business leaders to establish strategic platform capabilities, accelerate modernization initiatives, and shape the Operations AI roadmap.
Why We Need This Role
• Establish dedicated architectural ownership for DevOps, Platform Engineering, and AI initiatives.
• Accelerate the development of strategic capabilities, including self-service engineering, environment management, deployment automation, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering solutions.
• Provide long-term technology vision and architectural leadership for platform modernization across Operations.
Responsibilities
• Define and drive the architecture and modernization strategy for DevOps, Platform Engineering, and AI Enablement across Operations, establishing scalable standards, platforms, and practices that improve software delivery, reliability, and engineering productivity.
• Architect and lead next-generation platform capabilities, including self-service engineering platforms, environment management, deployment orchestration, parameter management, developer experience platforms, and automation frameworks that accelerate engineering teams and reduce operational overhead.
• Shape and execute the Operations AI roadmap by identifying, evaluating, and scaling AI-powered solutions that improve developer productivity, automate operational workflows, enhance decision-making, and drive measurable business outcomes.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, governance models, engineering standards, and automation capabilities that promote consistency, scalability, security, compliance, and operational excellence across the enterprise.
• Partner with engineering, product, operations, and leadership teams to align DevOps, Platform Engineering, and AI investments with organizational priorities and long-term modernization goals.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platform engineering practices, and AI innovations to continuously evolve the organization's engineering capabilities and technology strategy.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Observability, Automation, AI-assisted development, and Self-Service Engineering.
• Provide architectural leadership and technical guidance across multiple teams, influencing technical direction and ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and best practices.
Minimum Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or Architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing and architecting large-scale cloud-native platforms and enterprise engineering solutions.
• Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Architecture, Automation, and Software Delivery practices.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, and modern engineering toolchains.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture standards, technical roadmaps, and modernization strategies.
• Strong understanding of Platform Engineering concepts, including self-service platforms, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), golden paths, and developer experience frameworks.
• Experience integrating security, compliance, reliability, and governance into engineering platforms.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building and scaling Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and self-service engineering ecosystems.
• Experience architecting and implementing AI-enabled engineering solutions and AI-assisted software development capabilities.
• Expertise in DevSecOps, SRE, Observability, Cloud Native Architecture, and Engineering Productivity platforms.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide modernization and platform transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of engineering metrics, developer productivity, platform adoption, and operational excellence practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Drive adoption of AI, automation, and standardized engineering practices at scale.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the R&D team responsible for developing new products and improving existing ones. This person is expected to be responsible for well-designed and well tested code, and to apply creative solutions to problems.
Responsibilities:
• Designs, develops, tests and documents embedded system software for new and existing Insulet products.
• Ensures that their design is in compliance with Company policies, and that software activities are appropriate for the design and maintenance of medical products.
• Writes and maintains design documentation and testing requirements.
• Works with Quality, Regulatory, Marketing and Manufacturing to ensure that designs meet technical, regulatory and manufacturing requirements.
• Works closely with other software, software QA, and hardware engineers to integrate, debug, and test systems.
• Participate in product design reviews.
• Directs and mentors junior engineers as requested.
• Perform other duties as required.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent and 10+ years of relevant work experience.
Minimum Requirements:
• Strong programming skills in C and/or C++ is required.
• Hands-on experience with Embedded Systems is required.
• Experience on processors like ARM, TI and MSP (or similar Embedded Systems/Microcontrollers) is required.
• Familiarity with communication systems and/or wireless protocols.
• In-depth Object-oriented programming, as implemented in C, is required.
• Good understanding of RTOS and real time systems is required.
Preferred Skills and Competencies:
• Demonstrated working knowledge of software design.
• Experience developing software for embedded microcontrollers.
• Knowledge of I2C, SPI, Flash, EEPROM and/or USB preferred.
• Familiarity with communication systems and/or wireless protocols will be a plus.
• Medical device experience is preferred.
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Able to be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a section of a design.
• Detail oriented, with effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to communicate with candor and trust at multiple levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated abilities to leverage creativity in order to overcome obstacles and work with a sense of urgency.
• Strong software engineering development skills.
• Knowledge of OS concepts like dead locks, threading, mutual exclusion, interrupt services is expected.
• Good understanding of RTOS and real time systems is a plus.
• In-depth Object oriented programming is useful.
• Familiar with reading electrical schematics is a plus.
• Able to organize and judge multiple priorities.
• Agile or other software development life cycle concepts is a plus.
• Knowledge of Wireless protocols like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a plus.
Physical Requirements:
• None
Insulet started in 2000 with an idea and a mission to enable our customers to enjoy simplicity, freedom and healthier lives through the use of our Omnipod® product platform. In the last two decades we have improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients by using innovative technology that is wearable, waterproof, and lifestyle accommodating.
We are looking for highly motivated, performance driven individuals to be a part of our expanding team. We do this by hiring amazing people guided by shared values who exceed customer expectations. Our continued success depends on it!
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or Architecture roles
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience designing and architecting large-scale cloud-native platforms and enterprise engineering solutions
- Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, automation, and software delivery
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Artifactory
- Experience defining enterprise architecture standards, technical roadmaps, and modernization strategies
- Strong understanding of Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, golden paths, and developer experience frameworks
- Experience integrating security, compliance, reliability, and governance into engineering platforms
- Strong programming skills in C and/or C++
- Hands-on experience with embedded systems
- Experience with ARM, TI, MSP, or similar embedded processors and microcontrollers
- In-depth object-oriented programming knowledge as implemented in C
- Good understanding of RTOS and real-time systems
- Experience developing software for embedded microcontrollers
- Knowledge of I2C, SPI, Flash, EEPROM, and/or USB
- Familiarity with communication systems or wireless protocols
- Medical device software experience
- Experience building and scaling Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering ecosystems
- Experience architecting AI-enabled engineering solutions and AI-assisted software development capabilities
- Expertise in DevSecOps, SRE, observability, cloud-native architecture, and engineering productivity platforms
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
- Knowledge of wireless protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy
- Familiarity with reading electrical schematics
- Agile or other software development lifecycle experience
Insulet Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Insulet and has not been reviewed or approved by Insulet.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is broad, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, wellness resources, and an EAP. Plan details are described as comprehensive, with PPO options and first-day eligibility noted in some cases.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with a company match equal to 50% of the first 6% of pay, with vesting after a year. This match is paired with other financial benefits and is characterized as a strong element of the package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An ESPP with a 15% discount and a look-back enables stock purchases at 85% of the lower offering-period price. This feature is presented as a notably attractive wealth-building benefit.
Insulet Insights
What We Do
Insulet Corporation, headquartered in Massachusetts, is an innovative medical device company dedicated to simplifying life for people with diabetes and other conditions through its Omnipod product platform. The Omnipod® Insulin Management System provides a unique alternative to traditional insulin delivery methods. With its simple, wearable design, the disposable Pod provides up to three days of non-stop insulin delivery, without the need to see or handle a needle. Insulet also leverages the unique design of its Pod by tailoring its Omnipod technology platform for the delivery of non-insulin subcutaneous drugs across other therapeutic areas. Founded in 2000 (NASDAQ: PODD), Insulet operates with a customer-centric focus to supply high-quality products and expand the use of insulin pump therapy. Omnipod products are now available in 20+ countries around the globe. HIRING SCAM ALERT Recently, individuals impersonating Insulet Human Resources members have offered fraudulent interviews and job offers to unsuspecting candidates. To help protect you from these scam artists, please be aware that: • Insulet will never interview a candidate over RingCentral, similar messaging apps or social media (i.e. Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc.), or via text message. • Insulet will never send a company check or ask an applicant to pay a fee or purchase at home work/training materials in connection with an application for employment. • Insulet will never provide excess money to an applicant and ask the applicant to write a check for repayment. If you have any doubt about a job offer or any other communication purporting to come from Insulet, please reach out to us directly at 978-600-7000. If you receive any type of communication on behalf of Insulet that seems inappropriate or suspicious, please report this activity to: www.iC3.gov or www.stopfraud.gov
