Senior Platform Engineer
- Santa Clara, United States
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Original job description
At Sully.ai, We’re Building the Most Impactful Healthcare Company on Earth We believe that access to a great doctor is a basic human right. Today, that’s not a reality. Delays, misdiagnoses, administrative chaos, and burnout plague the system. Our Mission: One Human, One Doctor. We build AI teammates that augment clinicians - scribes, nurses, receptionists, translators - all powered by our own world-class models and deployed in real-world care. Our Traction
- 450+ organizations signed 16 months
- AI agents cut admin by ~2.8 hours daily and reduce onboarding 85%.
- 5M+ Clinical Tasks completed to date, serving 36+ specialties.
- Raised $30M from YC, Eric Yuan, Amity, Semper Virens
- Patented AI architecture (MedCon-1) outperforms GPT-4.5, Gemini, Claude on clinical reasoning tasks
Role Summary:
We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own and scale Sully.ai’s multi-cloud infrastructure, delivering automated, reliable, and cost-efficient deployments across regions while standardizing developer experience and platform operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own multi‑cloud provisioning, upgrading, and reliability of the core platform
- Automate everything via infrastructure as code and GitOps
- Ship fully automated deployments across regions
- Standardize developer experience across areas such as tooling and CI/CD
- Optimize our stack’s scalability and maintain cost‑awareness for AI workloads
Requirements:
- Senior-level experience & ability in Platform, DevOps, or SRE roles with production Kubernetes across multiple clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), not single‑cloud only.
- Proficiency with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code, including ArgoCD and either Terraform or Pulumi.
- Strong coding skills in Python or TypeScript for platform tooling and automation.
- High levels of ownership in a startup/scaleup with a lean team
Success Metrics (First 90 days):
- Take a loosely defined platform challenge, write the requirements, and deliver a working solution.
- Audit platform, CI/CD, and dev tooling with Eng/Product; remove top blockers.
- Baseline key metrics (lead time, deploy freq, MTTR, cost per token); draft a Platform Playbook.
- 100% infrastructure changes via IaC + GitOps; no console edits.
- Automated multi-region deployments across ≥2 clouds; SLOs enforced; MTTR ↓50%.
- Engineer efficiency up 80–90% on routine workflows; reduced LLM and infra cost.
Who Thrives Here
- Entrepreneurial to your core: You think in outcomes, thrive in chaos, and take ownership without limits
- Mission-obsessed: You’re here to save lives, not just ship features - patients and doctors are your why.
- Impact-driven & fast-moving: You sprint toward hard problems and ship with sharp judgment.
- Elite teammate: You raise the bar through high standards, direct feedback, and craft excellence.
Why Join Sully.ai? 🔥 Revolutionizing the antiquated $800B+ Healthcare market 🧠 50%+ of us are ex-founders. We hire A-players, not passengers ⚡️ Speed matters - we operate with urgency, autonomy, and ownership 🧪 You’ll work on real, first-of-their-kind problems at the edge of AI and medicine ❤️ Your work helps doctors reclaim their time - and patients get better, faster care About Sully.ai Our mission is "One Human, One Doctor". We are creating superhuman doctors, because access to doctors is a basic human right. Start with making doctors superhuman. Our vision is to eliminate doctor distractions and help them navigate the best treatments for their patients.