Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Kalderos
$160-175k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Identifies, manages, and regulates healthcare drug costs
Be an early applicant
Identifies, manages, and regulates healthcare drug costs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-175k
+ Bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve systemic problems of the healthcare system, redefining how the business of healthcare performs.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have a strong inclination to work in rapidly developing and expanding organizations and possess the necessary background to do so
- You are well-acquainted with the fast-paced, high-volume, and uncertain nature of operations in the organization, and perceive it as a chance to deliver significant outcomes
- Cloud & Platform: Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider, Azure preferred, (AWS, Azure, or GCP) at an architectural level; proven ability to design and operate highly available, secure, cloud-native systems
- Containers & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar, plus key ecosystem tools (ingress, service mesh, operators)
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Expert with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.), modular design, and automation using Python, Go, or similar
- CI/CD & Delivery: Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps), including progressive delivery (blue/green, canary, feature flags) and safe rollback
- Observability & SRE: Strong understanding of SRE principles and hands-on work with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic)
- Security, Compliance & Networking: Deep understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and encryption; familiarity with frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST; strong grasp of networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, VPNs, firewalls)
- Data & Emerging Tech: Experience supporting data platforms and pipelines in the cloud and familiarity with ML/AI infrastructure impacts on architecture and cost
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and influence multiple teams without formal authority
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from design through rollout
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain tradeoffs and decisions to both engineers and business stakeholders
- Passion for mentoring and coaching other engineers and raising the overall technical bar
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, making pragmatic decisions, and iterating as you learn
- We encourage you to apply if you think you may be a fit and give us both a chance to find out!
Desirable
- Experience in healthcare, pharma, or other highly regulated industries
- Familiarity with payment systems, EDI, or large-scale data integrations
- Familiarity with file transfer mechanism such as SFTP, AS2 etc
- Prior experience building or evolving internal platforms / platform engineering teams
- Experience in high-growth or rapidly changing environments where infrastructure had to adapt quickly
What the job involves
- We are looking for a collaborative Staff Infrastructure Engineer
- Across all roles, we look for future team members who will live our values of being BOLD (Bias to Action, One Team, Lead by Example, Dumpster Diving Data Mavens)
- Own critical infrastructure and support platform domains end to end
- Set direction and standards for reliability, security, and developer experience
- Lead complex, cross-team initiatives and architecture decisions
- Act as a force multiplier by mentoring and unblocking other engineers
- Define and evolve infrastructure and support platform architecture for key products and services
- Drive a multi-year roadmap for reliability, security and support platform capabilities
- Establish reference architectures and golden paths that product and data teams can adopt
- Lead adoption of SRE practices: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, and post-incident reviews
- Design and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards) across services and infrastructure
- Automate runbooks and self-healing mechanisms to reduce toil and improve MTTR
- Design and evolve a self-service platform (environments, CI/CD, infra templates) that helps teams ship safely and quickly
- Own and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps workflows
- Build reusable platform components and tools that standardize how services are built, deployed, and operated
- Partner with Security and Compliance to embed zero-trust, least privilege, and encryption into infrastructure patterns
- Support healthcare-grade compliance (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST) through infrastructure design and automation
- Collaborate with data teams on secure, reliable data platforms and pipelines
- Lead FinOps practices: visibility into spend, cost optimization, and guardrails that balance cost and reliability
- Design for resilience and recovery: backup/restore, DR, and regional failover strategies
- Continuously tune performance and capacity across compute, storage, and networking
Our take
The high cost of prescription drugs in the US is a significant point of contention within the healthcare sector, particularly as prices continue rising. Despite policy proposals to combat this, very few changes have been made to tackle the problem of information asymmetry, where decisions are made by healthcare professionals without concrete knowledge of drug costs. Kalderos is a cloud platform that aims to bridge this gap to create a more transparent system for medical professionals and patients alike.
Using a machine learning platform, Kalderos identifies and resolves non-compliance in drug processes and costs to provide widely accessible data so that informed decisions can be made. The platform has worked with government bodies to demonstrate how it facilitates transparency in the sector to create a more efficient, honest process that is cost-effective for hospitals and patients.
Recent developments include a new Dispute Centre that provides drug discount management teams with sophisticated and detailed insights into the resolution process for disputes. This enables increased visibility that aims to ease workflows in order to allow users to maintain focus on treating patients. Kalderos is continually investing in its platform in order to create solutions like this for maximum transparency.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$15m
LATE VC
Jun 2020
$28m
SERIES B
Total funding: $50m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- FSA
- HSA
- One Medical Membership
- 401K
- Commuter Benefit
- Voluntary Short & Long- term Disability
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Life & AD&D Insurance
- Celebration Stipend
- Continuing Education Stipend
- DoorDash Subscription
- Calm Membership
- Remote Work Stipend
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Jeremy Docken
(Chief Strategy Officer)Previously a Senior Treasury Analyst of Securitizations at Harley Davidson Financial Services. Also worked as a Director of Pharmaceutical Advisory Practice at KPMG and as Director of Data Niche at IMS Health. Was the CEO of Kalderos until May 2021.
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