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Staff Platform Engineer

Komodo Health · United States · On-site

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About Komodo Health

Backed by a16z, Felicis and ICONIQ.

About the role

The Platform team owns Komodo’s core control plane – KMC/PSS, identity and access, subscription lifecycle, and the SDKs and tools that power all the Komodo products such as App Builder and Connector, Maplab, Sentinel, Marmot . We provide the foundations that internal teams and customers use to onboard, manage access, and build on top of Komodo’s data. Our work enables 150+ client organizations and internal product teams to operate reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale.

What they're looking for

  • Engineering Excellence: Expert-level backend engineering experience (Python + FastAPI preferred) building and operating APIs and microservices at scale, with strong debugging and technical troubleshooting skills
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Profound experience with AWS core services and the ability to architect secure, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions from high-level requirements
  • System Design & Tradeoffs: Ability to design solutions that thoughtfully balance non-functional concerns such as performance, cost, maintainability, reliability, and developer experience
  • Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-team projects to completion, mentor other engineers, and collaborate effectively with product managers, data scientists, and customer-facing teams
  • AI & Productivity: Comfort leveraging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini) and interest in integrating LLM-based workflows into the SDLC to improve engineering velocity and quality
More about this role

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease.

As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. At Komodo, you will be joining a team of ambitious, supportive Dragons with diverse backgrounds but a shared passion to deliver on our mission to reduce the burden of disease — and enjoy the journey along the way.

The Platform team owns Komodo’s core control plane –...

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