Staff Cloud Engineer, Aetion
Healthcare analytics provider
Open for applications
Healthcare analytics provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To power critical decisions in health care with data science-driven technology.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineer, Systems Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- 5+ years building Platform Engineering or SRE solutions with strong knowledge of cloud architecture
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping software products
- Expert-level Kubernetes experience with 5+ years containerized workloads
- Production experience with AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM)
- Infrastructure as Code expertise - 5+ years with Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or similar
- Programming proficiency - 5+ years in Python, Java, or similar languages, plus Unix shell scripting
- CI/CD platform design and implementation (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Concord)
- Observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
- Database experience with SQL databases, big data platforms, and supporting big data pipelines
- Linux Systems - In-depth experience solving complex issues on Linux systems and/or within the JVM
- Proven experience with security engineering, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and implementing comprehensive compliance programs
- Understanding of healthcare/fintech regulatory requirements
- Lean and agile experience working in small, fast-moving teams
Desirable
- Healthcare/fintech experience working in regulated environments
- Other cloud provider experience (e.g. Azure, GCP)
- Java application debugging, tracing, and profiling
What the job involves
- As a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be a critical and senior member of Aetion's engineering organization, instrumental in writing the next chapter of our ability to innovate and operate with efficiency and maturity
- This role focuses on building and evolving the platform that powers Aetion's analytical capabilities while leading engineering projects that mature our infrastructure, security, observability, and automation
- You'll design developer platforms, manage cloud infrastructure, ensure security and compliance in regulated healthcare environments, and scale data platform infrastructure handling petabyte-scale healthcare datasets
- Design and implement self-service platforms that eliminate toil for product engineering teams
- Develop platform APIs and CLIs that make complex infrastructure operations simple
- Architect and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS tenants
- Implement comprehensive observability solutions providing metrics that matter
- Design disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for healthcare-critical workloads
- Implement policy-as-code frameworks ensuring HIPAA and SOC2 compliance
- Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning and governance
- Scale big data processing infrastructure handling petabyte-scale healthcare datasets
- Design and maintain security incident response systems and automated threat mitigation
Our take
Aetion provides real-world evidence (RWE), predictive analytics, and healthcare modeling based on real-world data (RWD) to drug companies, payers, life science companies, and regulatory agencies. Its evidence platform is trusted by top global biopharma firms, leading payers, and regulatory bodies to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and value of medical products.
Since its founding, Aetion has conducted over 9,000 treatment effectiveness analyses and has become integral to the US Food and Drug Administration's modern drug approval and safety processes. With the growing demand for evidence-based solutions in healthcare becoming especially evident in recent years.
Aetion is expanding its platform capabilities, increasing its presence in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and strengthening its commercial team. With key partnerships and acquisitions, the company is well-positioned to lead in healthcare development as more health-related data becomes available through devices and wearables.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Aug 2020
$19m
SERIES B
Total funding: $203.6m
Company benefits
- Array of options for Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Free membership to OneMedical
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Healthcare and Dependent Care
- Commuter Benefits for Parking and Transit
- 4% 401(k) match on Retirement Savings Plan
- Unlimited paid time off
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- One month paid sabbatical after five years at Aetion
- Stipend towards wellness related expenses like gym memberships, fitness classes, and more
- Company activities including happy hours, annual rally, summer social, lunch ‘n learns, and more!
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jeremy Rassen
(Co-Founder & CEO)An epidemiologist and computer scientist with nearly 25 years of experience in the science and technology of big data. Prior to Aetion, was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and has worked a number of Silicon Valley jobs with Hewlitt-Packard and Epiphany.
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