Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Job Description

Job Description

About Lark

Lark is the world's largest A.I. healthcare provider, contracted to manage 30M+ patients living with or at risk of chronic disease.

Lark provides a human touch through the companion app on the user’s phone providing real-time coaching, guidance, and health insights to users.

We are on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry and make the world a healthier, happier place. Come join our team!

The Role

At Lark, we believe in compassionate care and innovation. We're seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer as a change agent to join our team and help deliver high-quality, reliable services to our users.

This role reports directly to our Senior Director of Engineering and has a broad mandate across DataOps, DevOps, SRE, and Backend.

You will demonstrate deep expertise and technical leadership in multiple technology domains and have the autonomy to build out your areas of expertise to strengthen the teams in the way you find most impactful.

If this sounds exciting, we want to talk to you!

What You’ll Do

Lead collaboration with engineers, executives, and other stakeholders across teams to improve our internal developer and data platforms

Lead design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

Work with engineers to innovate, improve, and enhance (or deprecate and replace) existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems

Refine and expand technical / architecture / design guidance documentation for engineers on the teams to follow as best practices when building and maintaining systems and services

Mentor and develop others while learning new skills / attributes in the role

Perform hands-on solution development and validation as needed

Set up and maintain data pipeline infrastructure between data warehouse and BI tool using Terraform

Manage Kafka infrastructure and advocate for best practices across teams who are using Kafka, with an emphasis on observability

Apply your expertise in database design, with a focus on technologies such as MySQL, DocumentDB, and DynamoDB

Enforce SRE principles on key components of the backend platform

Leverage opportunities to optimize our deployment pipelines, configuration management, and orchestration tools for streamlined operations and rapid iteration

Make strategic changes to our CI platform to empower teams to manage their workflows while minimizing variability across teams

Modernize SQL database migrations in our core legacy stack

Execute on prioritized R&D efforts to improve developer velocity and tackle legacy tech debt

What You’ll Need

Experience building CI / CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo

Expertise in AWS system operations and design

Customer-centric mindset about internal developer platforms

Expertise in IaC, particularly Terraform and CloudFormation or CDK

Maturity with respect to change management, including critically evaluating the need for platform and tool migrations

Experience with serverless architecture, for example AWS Lambda

Proficiency in secure and efficient Docker image creation and deployment to Kubernetes, Docker Compose

Expertise with Helm and / or Kustomize

Test and QA automation as part of deployment pipelines

Aptitude in static code analysis, integration and functional testing

Attention to security best practices, including zero trust, RBAC and effective AuthN / Z

A solid SRE mindset, with experience in monitoring and alerting best practices, experience with Grafana and Datadog a plus

Proficiency in data modeling and experience with data migration

Expertise with both SQL and NoSQL, especially MySQL (DocumentDB and DynamoDB experience are nice-to-haves)

Fluency in one or more programming languages in Lark’s core stack : Golang or TypeScript (NodeJS)

Previous exposure to HIPAA / HITRUST / SOC 2 compliance and security is highly valued

Working at Lark

Lark operates as a remote organization, requiring all employees to reside within the United States. The specific salary offered to a candidate will depend on various factors, including their location, job level, and verified job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for additional compensation, such as participation in a bonus program and stock awards, where applicable.

Lark is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that diverse teams foster innovation and add to our mission-driven culture.

We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

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Compensation Range : $161.3K - $231.5K