Software Engineering Manager, Developer Platform

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: [Salary information not provided]

Who We Are

Pearl Health is powering the future of healthcare. We empower primary care providers and organizations to deliver quality healthcare to patients, rewarding them for keeping patients healthy. Our technology, services, and financial tools facilitate better, more proactive care, reduce the total cost of care across patient panels, and optimize performance in value-based care models for Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage.

Our team comprises experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds:

• Physicians and Public Health Experts: Stanford, Harvard, Mount Sinai
• Technologists: athenahealth, Amazon, Meta, Flatiron
• Healthcare Innovators: Centivo, Aledade, Stellar, Arcadia
• Risk Management Professionals: CVS/Aetna, Humana, Oscar

We believe primary care providers are crucial to addressing the healthcare system's most significant challenges. Since our founding in 2020, Pearl has partnered with thousands of primary care providers across 44 states. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Viking Global Investors, AlleyCorp, and SV Angel.

The Role

The Developer Platform team at Pearl Health is dedicated to building tools, patterns, and best practices that ensure the success of our Engineers and the Pearl Application for our customers. This team enables the effective use of infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, security, and other workflows for engineers at Pearl, helping them build and deliver software more efficiently and securely.

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead this critical team, maintaining hands-on technical involvement. This role demands a blend of technical depth in platform engineering, people leadership, and strategic thinking. You will manage a team of platform engineers (including Staff Engineers, Senior Engineers, and contractors) while actively contributing to infrastructure code and architecture decisions. You will also drive cross-functional initiatives to enhance engineering productivity across Pearl.

This position balances:

• 30% Hands-on Technical Work
• 50% Team Management and People Development
• 20% Cross-Team Strategic Initiatives

To Be Successful in This Role, You Will:

Lead and Develop Your Team (50%)

• Recruit, mentor, and retain exceptional platform engineering talent, including Staff Engineers, Senior Engineers, and contractors.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, site reliability, and DevOps best practices.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
• Build a high-performing team that delivers reliable infrastructure and an excellent developer experience.

Drive Technical Excellence (30%)

• Maintain hands-on technical involvement in infrastructure architecture and implementation.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for reproducible and scalable environment setups.
• Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems and serverless functions.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Github Actions, CircleCI, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Own the observability pipeline to ensure applications are well-monitored.
• Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while effectively managing costs.

Innovate Across Teams (20%)

• Partner with Engineering teams, DSA, Security, and Product stakeholders to define platform roadmaps that enable faster, more secure software delivery.
• Drive the adoption of platform tools and establish engineering standards across the organization.
• Collaborate effectively with engineering managers and technical leadership to align platform investments with business goals.

Champion Security and Compliance

• Help inform security and compliance best practices by ensuring architecture meets the demands of a regulated work environment, including HIPAA and HITRUST requirements.

Deliver Results

• Own your team's impact and contributions to Pearl Health's success.