Staff Platform Engineer | Brazil, Remote

About the Company

Our client is a high-growth HealthTech company building the future of mobile-first healthcare across Latin America. As the platform rapidly expands into new markets and regulated healthcare environments, they are investing in world-class platform infrastructure that enables secure, scalable, and reliable product delivery.

This is an opportunity to build the technical foundations that power millions of users while working alongside an ambitious, AI-native engineering team.

• Location: Brazil (Remote)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Seniority: Staff / Senior
• Work Authorization: Required for Brazil
• Compensation: Up to 200,000 USD Annually

The Opportunity

Our client is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the platform architecture from infrastructure through production.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys designing distributed systems, building cloud platforms, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and shipping production-ready solutions. You'll define technical direction, own critical platform decisions, and help establish engineering standards while remaining deeply involved in implementation.

What You'll Do

• Design and own the architecture of the company's platform infrastructure end-to-end
• Build and maintain GraphQL gateways, API infrastructure, internal SDKs, and shared platform services
• Manage Kubernetes environments across AWS and GCP, including networking, scaling, security, and upgrades
• Develop production-grade backend services, automation tooling, shared libraries, and Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi
• Modernize legacy systems through pragmatic refactoring and architectural improvements
• Build observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability systems across the platform
• Implement security best practices covering zero-trust networking, secrets management, compliance, and auditability
• Drive compliance initiatives across HIPAA, LGPD, ISO 27001, and other regulatory frameworks
• Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows across platform operations, incident response, code review, and automation
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership while remaining an active contributor

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience designing and shipping large-scale production platform architectures
• Strong backend engineering background with deep systems design expertise
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong practical experience with AWS and GCP
• Proven ownership of infrastructure from design through long-term production operation
• Experience modernizing and scaling legacy distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and incident response
• Experience working within regulated environments such as HIPAA, LGPD, SOC2, GDPR, or ISO 27001
• Strong coding skills with a passion for building production systems rather than managing projects
• AI-first mindset with practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity
• Experience operating in fast-paced startups or high-growth technology companies
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments with a strong bias toward shipping

Nice to Have

• Graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune)
• Firestore or MongoDB at scale
• Healthcare infrastructure, EHR integrations, or FHIR APIs
• Multi-cloud platform architecture
• Platform security and security auditing
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience without formal people management responsibilities
• Public technical projects, open-source contributions, or engineering blog

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Fully remote work within Brazil
• Opportunity to define the platform architecture of a rapidly scaling HealthTech company
• Direct collaboration with founders and senior engineering leadership
• High ownership with significant technical influence
• Work on modern AI-native infrastructure supporting healthcare at scale

Build the platform powering the next generation of AI-driven healthcare while owning architecture that scales from day one...