This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that powers our product, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and secure. You will work with cloud technologies, automation tools, and observability systems, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize platform performance and mentor junior engineers. - Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure to support the scalability, reliability, and performance of our platform. - Automate infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to streamline provisioning and scaling of cloud resources. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and continuous integration, ensuring that our development cycles are efficient and reliable. - Containerize applications, ensuring that our services are highly available, scalable, and easily deployable. - Improve platform performance and optimize backend systems, contributing to performance bottlenecks resolution and system troubleshooting. - Monitor platform health by setting up observability tools and ensuring proactive alerting and issue resolution. - Contribute to security best practices in infrastructure and platform services, ensuring the system adheres to industry security standards. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth platform operations, offering technical insights to development teams and resolving platform-related blockers. - Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery. - Mentor and support junior engineers by sharing knowledge and providing guidance on technical decisions and best practices. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus. - 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a backend or platform focus. - Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred, but proficiency with any major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure) is acceptable. - Proven track record leading technical projects from design through implementation. - Demonstrated strength in statistical and analytical thinking, with the ability to break down complex systems, evaluate performance metrics, and derive actionable insights. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed. Requirements - Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling. - Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices. - Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage. Benefits - Flexible Time-Off & Remote Work - Health Insurance – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees; 60–65% coverage for dependents. - Retirement Plan – Comprehensive 401(k) program. - Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options available. - Equity Compensation – Competitive equity package with a 4-year vesting schedule. - Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance – Coverage provided where applicable. - Parental Leave – Inclusive leave for birthing and non-birthing parents; policies vary by state. - Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – Paid day off to support a nonprofit or community cause.

Why Charlie Health? Millions of people across the country are navigating mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and eating disorders, but too often, they’re met with barriers to care. From limited local options and long wait times to treatment that lacks personalization, behavioral healthcare can leave people feeling unseen and unsupported. Charlie Health exists to change that. Our mission is to connect the world to life-saving behavioral health treatment. We deliver personalized, virtual care rooted in connection—between clients and clinicians, care teams, loved ones, and the communities that support them. By focusing on people with complex needs, we’re expanding access to meaningful care and driving better outcomes from the comfort of home. As a rapidly growing organization, we're reaching more communities every day and building a team that’s redefining what behavioral health treatment can look like. If you're ready to use your skills to drive lasting change and help more people access the care they deserve, we’d love to meet you. About the Role As a Lead Platform Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the data models, data access patterns, contracts, database infrastructure, and instrumentation that power our transactional systems. You will be at the intersection of every major engineering initiative, working across Product Engineering, Analytics, ML, and Platform to set the bar for data quality, consistency, usability, scalability, and security. You will ensure great data starts at the moment a feature is built, not as a cleanup task afterward. You'll also own one of the team's most impactful initiatives: designing and migrating to modern data models that reflect how our business works at scale. We’re a team of passionate, forward-thinking professionals eager to take on the challenge of the mental health crisis and play a formative role in providing life-saving solutions. If you’re inspired by our mission and energized by the opportunity to increase access to mental healthcare and profoundly impact millions of lives, apply today. Responsibilities - Define, implement, and evolve data models and schemas in Postgres to support product and analytical use cases. - Develop and maintain our data access standards and patterns in our core backend systems with Python and Typescript. - Lead the definition, design, and phased migration to improved data models for core business concepts. - Work alongside product engineering teams to deliver features with correct and well-modeled data at the source. - Measure and improve data quality, correctness, stability, and usability improvements across our transactional systems. - Provide options around key initiatives and break down work into visible and achievable milestones, delivering incremental value. - Mentor and train other engineers throughout the organization and seek to continually improve our architecture and data modeling standards and engineering processes. - Improve data usability, trust, and developer productivity by building shared tooling, patterns, and documentation that make it easy for teams to produce and consume high-quality data. - Maintain and improve our transactional database infrastructure running in AWS. - Review SQL and data access code for our production systems. - Partner with engineers across the organization to ensure database migrations are executed correctly and safely. - Profile, analyze, and tune slow or inefficient queries in Postgres. - Leverage AI-powered tooling to enhance the software development lifecycle. - Drive security, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost-efficiency improvements across our deployed services. - Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly. - We currently work in Scrumban-style 2-week sprints. Our teams work hybrid (required if in NY) and remotely across time zones, but are available during core meeting hours (12PM to 5PM EST). Requirements - 6+ years of experience in a role focused on Backend or Data Platform Engineering. - 3+ years of experience writing production-level SQL and backend code. - Recent expertise with Python as a primary programming language. - Experience with data modeling concepts and best practices (e.g., dimensional modeling, data vault, or similar). - Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging tools such as Datadog and Cloudwatch. - Proven track record of breaking down large problems and delivering incremental value to meet deadlines while providing options for long-term improvements. - Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems. - Familiarity with AI-enabled developer productivity tooling. - Strong communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment. - Hands-on experience participating in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving critical infrastructure and application issues promptly. - Please note that team members who live within 45 minutes of a Charlie Health office are expected to follow a hybrid work schedule. Nice-to-Haves - Proficiency with programming languages like Typescript or Golang. - Experience with large data migrations on production systems. - Expertise with AWS services like Aurora, S3, SQS, ECS Fargate, and Lambda. - Proficiency with Snowflake as a cloud data warehouse. - Experience with Data Engineering tools like DBT, Dagster, Fivetran, and Hightouch. - Familiarity with event-driven data architectures and stream processing (e.g., Eventbridge, Kafka, or similar). Benefits Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees. Read more about our benefits here. The total target base compensation for this role will be between $175,000 and $255,000 per year at the commencement of employment. Please note, pay will be determined on an individualized basis and will be impacted by location, experience, expertise, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits.   Our Values - Connection: Care deeply & inspire hope. - Congruence: Stay curious & heed the evidence. - Commitment: Act with urgency & don’t give up. Please do not call our public clinical admissions line in regard to this or any other job posting. Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Charlie Health, please go directly to our Careers Page: https://www.charliehealth.com/careers/current-openings. Charlie Health will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company. In addition, Charlie Health will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team. All communications with Charlie Health Talent and People Operations professionals will only be sent from @charliehealth.com email addresses. Legitimate emails will never originate from gmail.com, yahoo.com, or other commercial email services. Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals. At Charlie Health, we value being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to cultivate an environment where individuals can be their authentic selves. Being an Equal Opportunity Employer means every member of our team feels as though they are supported and belong. We value diverse perspectives to help us provide essential mental health and substance use disorder treatments to all young people. Charlie Health applicants are assessed solely on their qualifications for the role, without regard to disability or need for accommodation. 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• The GCP Architect Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and compliant cloud and AI-enabled platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • This role focuses on enabling application, data, and AI teams through standardized cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and approved Google AI services. • The engineer ensures that AI and cloud workloads are deployed with strong governance, security controls, observability, and enterprise reliability standards. • Working cross-functionally with Cloud, Data & AI, Security, and Risk teams, this role supports the safe and compliant adoption of AI capabilities within a regulated enterprise environment.

Cloud Platform Engineer Amazing Opportunity and Great Place to Work! Are you a fast learner who is fascinated by technology? Our Story At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.” Our Values Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. Grow with purpose – be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others. It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at careers.alight.com. “This role supports services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship. Proof of citizenship status will be required at time of hire.” About the Role We are seeking engineers to help design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud platforms on AWS. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy both hands-on delivery and contributing to technical direction through thoughtful design and ownership. Successful candidates will be assessed during the hiring process and placed into either a Cloud Engineering or DevOps Engineering role based on skills, experience, and interests. You will work with modern cloud technologies, automation, and AI-assisted tooling in a collaborative environment that values ownership, learning, and technical excellence. Responsibilities - Design, implement, and evolve cloud-native solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines. - Own production systems end-to-end, including design decisions, implementation, operational reliability, and iterative improvement. - Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible. - Design, implement, optimize, and own CI/CD pipeline tooling for application and infrastructure deployments using tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins. - Design, implement, and own high‑quality, maintainable code in a modern language like Python, and author reliable Bash or PowerShell scripts. - Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and contribute to internal platforms that enable teams to build and deploy AI-enabled solutions using AWS Bedrock and WatsonX. - Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. - Embed security into infrastructure and delivery workflows by applying DevSecOps practices such as least-privilege access, secure defaults, and automated policy enforcement. - Collaborate effectively with application, platform, network, and security teams, clearly communicating requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions. - Maintain clear documentation and proactively explore and apply emerging technologies in cloud, DevOps, and AI. Requirements - Strong software engineering skills in Python (preferred) and Bash. Experience with Web development, Java, JavaScript, and/or PowerShell desirable. - 3+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or DevOps roles. - Hands-on experience building and operating AWS-based systems using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, and Lambda. - Experience using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible). - Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments. - Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. - Working knowledge of AWS networking and security, including troubleshooting connectivity issues, defining security group rules, applying least-privilege IAM policies, and partnering with network and security engineers. - Ability to impact reliability, scalability, and performance, and make pragmatic tradeoffs in production systems. - Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical outcomes across teams. - Demonstrated self-directed learning and curiosity—proactively seeking out and applying new technologies and approaches. - Experience operating automated infrastructure and delivery pipelines at scale. - Exposure to foundational AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, agentic patterns, RAG) and interest in applying AI to automation, developer tooling, or operational workflows. Flexible Working So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row. Benefits We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options. By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position. Our commitment to Inclusion We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful. At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future. As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that people with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com. Equal Opportunity Policy Statement Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans. Alight provides reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting their recruiter. Authorization to work in the Employing Country Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight. Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units. #LI-Remote P&T2026 We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization. Salary Pay Range Minimum : 120,000.00 USDMaximum : 165,000.00 USD Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: Wellbeing and Benefits Selector Page - Alight DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units. Alight Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Alight Solutions is committed to a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.