Candid Health
Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform
About this role
Candid Health seeks an experienced Engineering Leader to oversee Platform and Infrastructure teams, managing three distinct areas: Production Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, and Data Engineering. You'll report to the Head of Engineering and partner with company leadership to drive scalability, reliability, and technical strategy for a mission-critical healthcare platform.
What you'll do
- Lead and manage three engineering teams (Production Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, Data Engineering) across compute, networking, data pipelines, and CI/CD systems
- Define technical strategy and architecture to support short-term and long-term business objectives in collaboration with product and leadership
- Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery of impactful results while maintaining high technical quality and reliability standards
- Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads, creating growth pathways and fostering team motivation
- Make data-driven decisions to improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and reduce operational burden
- Recruit exceptional engineers and collaborate with leadership on cross-functional initiatives including security, compliance, and disaster recovery
What they're looking for
- Engineering leadership and team management
- Infrastructure and platform architecture
- Data pipeline and data engineering expertise
- DevOps and CI/CD systems
- Observability and monitoring
- Strategic planning and technical decision-making
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- Mentoring and talent development
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Candid Health
Candid Health builds healthcare billing software designed to improve billing operations and customer experiences through scalable, reliable systems. The company is hiring Software Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Security Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Engineering Leaders to develop its platform infrastructure, data solutions, and customer-facing features.
- Website
- candid.health
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you led multiple infrastructure or platform teams simultaneously. How did you prioritize and balance competing technical needs across those teams?
- Describe your experience owning scalability, reliability, and performance for a mission-critical system. What metrics did you track and how did you drive improvements?