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# Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

- **Company:** Cohere Health
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Software Engineering, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Apache Kafka, Terraform
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/ombt8q7uuc

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE
 * Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads
 * Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar) and hands-on experience with AWS, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines
 * Deep understanding of system design, observability, and production operations
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
 * Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), and messaging systems
 * Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and proactively improve platform performance and developer productivity
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

## Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering to help shape the future of how we build, deploy, and operate software at Cohere. In this role, you'll drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience - building a platform that is scalable, reliable, and intuitive for engineers to use. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization, with a direct impact on how our teams ship software at scale.

What You'll Do

 * Lead development of scalable, reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure
 * Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed
 * Improve developer experience through CI/CD enhancements and faster feedback cycles
 * Establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response
 * Design environments that support consistent testing, validation, and safe releases
 * Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices


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