Color Health is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of our platform and developer experience. You’ll own and advance our AWS & Kubernetes-based infrastructure, enable world-class CI/CD, and partner with software, security, and bioinformatics teams to ensure we scale with confidence and speed.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes & EKS, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native architecture.
- Strong experience with AWS services, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and databases.
- Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
- Solid foundation in Linux systems, container orchestration, and networking.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and on-call practices for high-availability systems.
- Experience in a regulated industry like healthcare or fintech.
- Exposure to data infrastructure and pipelines (e.g., BigQuery, dbt, Airflow).
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud-native infrastructure on AWS leveraging EKS, S3, IAM and more.
- Improve and scale CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and own infra observability using DataDog & Honeycomb.
- Develop internal tooling and platform capabilities to accelerate engineering productivity.
- Mentor and guide engineers to ensure application and infrastructure needs are tightly aligned.
- Serve as technical lead for infrastructure projects and help shape long-term platform strategy.
- Manage and tune our database infrastructure as application and business needs evolve.
Other
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with 2+ years in a staff or lead role.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset—able to align platform vision with engineering and business needs.
- Hybrid role with 3 days per week in-office in Burlingame, and the other 2 days per week remote or in-office as needed.
- If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified but are up for the challenge - we want you to apply!
- Partner with security and compliance to meet HITRUST, SOC 2, and HIPAA standards.
