# Sr. Staff Platform Engineer at Hims & Hers Health

- Company: Hims & Hers Health
- Company website: https://www.hims.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: US - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hims-and-hers/25d66321-50b1-4590-ab56-439180333ff1?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hims-and-amp-hers-health-sr-staff-platform-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Staff Platform Engineer to set technical direction for our platform, not just build within it. This is the most senior IC role on the team: you'll own architecture for our most consequential, cross-org infrastructure initiatives, and be the person other senior and staff engineers look to when a design decision needs to hold up across every team that depends on it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years in Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles, including demonstrated ownership of at least one initiative that spanned multiple teams or business units, not just a single team's roadmap
- Deep, production-proven expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh (Istio strongly preferred — mTLS, traffic shaping, sidecar architecture, multi-cluster rollout), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) at meaningful scale
- A track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical programs from architecture through execution — including the ability to produce the kind of cost/risk analysis and phased proposal that secures leadership buy-in and funding
- Experience debugging and resolving production incidents in distributed, multi-hop systems (e.g., proxy/sidecar-layer failures, cross-service auth issues, environment-specific config drift between staging and production)
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java, with the judgment to know when to write code yourself versus when to set direction and delegate
- A demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority — driving alignment across engineering orgs that don't report to you, and building the kind of technical credibility that s

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