Staff DevOps Engineer, K Health
$160-190k
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office
AI-driven primary care company
Be an early applicant
AI-driven primary care company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-190k
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help everyone get access to high-quality care.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering
- Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem - Helm, Helmfile, ArgoCD, Kyverno, cert-manager, and NGINX Ingress
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform - GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, IAM, and Workload Identity
- Strong Terraform expertise: modular architecture, multi-environment provisioning, and automated testing
- Advanced knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and GitOps practices
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go
Desirable
- Advanced Bash scripting skills
- Experience with secrets management solutions such as Akeyless or HashiCorp Vault
- Experience with database administration across PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB - including DR configuration and operational runbooks
- Experience with Datadog or equivalent observability platform (APM, infrastructure, log management)
- Experience with Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and security rules management
- Demonstrated experience designing and executing disaster recovery programs, including failover testing and runbook authorship
- Experience in highly regulated environments - SOC2 and HIPAA
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers
- Experience with HPC or GPU cluster infrastructure, including Slurm.
- Experience building or operating AI agents or agentic infrastructure
- Experience with microservices architecture and API gateway / reverse proxy patterns
- Experience with AWS
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team at K Health
- You will own and evolve the infrastructure underpinning a healthcare AI platform serving patients and enterprise health system partners
- This is a high-ownership role: you will architect and operate cloud environments across K Health and its enterprise partners, lead complex infrastructure migrations, drive disaster recovery programs, and help build the next generation of AI-powered operations tooling
- You will also mentor junior engineers and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the company
- Own the design, implementation, and evolution of our GKE-based Kubernetes infrastructure across K Health and enterprise partner environments
- Build and maintain our Terraform modular infrastructure library, including reusable modules with automated testing, across GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS
- Architect, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD shared pipeline templates used by all engineering teams (build, test, security scanning, deployment)
- Own and maintain self-hosted infrastructure software running in-cluster, including GitLab, ArgoCD, Langfuse, DependencyTrack, NGINX Ingress, and others
- Implement and support security and compliance controls across infrastructure and the software supply chain - secrets management, pipeline secret detection, container scanning, SOC2 and HIPAA
- Drive disaster recovery readiness: design failover scenarios, author runbooks, and lead periodic DR tests
- Lead development of AI-powered operations tooling and agentic infrastructure
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production system reliability; respond to incidents during on-call shifts
- Mentor junior DevOps engineers and establish team-wide engineering standards
Our take
K Health is a telemedicine startup improving accessibility to primary care and medical information. It supplies an AI-powered, fully anonymised symptom checker and an online 24/7 consultation service that enables people to get more accurate diagnostic information faster.
Available through health plans or directly through a mobile app, K Health's platform leverages predictive AI models to help optimise diagnosis and treatment. This, on top of its relative affordability, sets it apart from competitors that offer similar online consultation services.
Although many remain skeptical about the maturity of healthcare AI, interest remains high among professionals. As such, K Health continues to attract high levels of investment, the latest of which will help expand operations and supercharge its development efforts.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jul 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Jul 2023
$59m
LATE VC
Total funding: $392.8m
Company benefits
- Equity in K Health for all full-time employees
- Our hybrid work schedule offers working from home and in-office days
- Up to 6 weeks of parental leave with additional leave offered through our 3rd party administrator, Sparrow
- 18 Vacation days, 5 sick days, and 2 personal days (plus days off for national holidays and multiple company-wide 3 day weekends per year)
- Choose between three comprehensive plans for your medical, dental, and vision (employees are also eligible to use our K Health app for free!)
- Gym Reimbursement for any employees who are enrolled in a medical plan
- K will match 100% of employee contributions to their 401(k) up to 3% of their salary, and then 50% up to 5%
- FSAs, HSA, Parking and Commuter accounts
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Adam Singolda
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Currently Founder and CEO at Taboola. Worked as a R&D Manager in the IDF for over 6 years, before working as a TechStars Mentor in NYC.
Allon Bloch
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former CEO of Hydrogen Health. Was a Partner at JVP before serving as CEO of Wix.com and founding mySupermarket and Vroom.
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