Principal Engineer, Clover Health
Cloud Infrastructure
$195-270k
+ Equity + Performance based Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Healthcare technology company
Open for applications
Healthcare technology company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$195-270k
+ Equity + Performance based Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve the quality of life of our members and physicians by reducing doctor-insurer friction and increasing visibility into the health of each patient, leading to improved care.
Role
Who you are
- You have an engineering background with deep, hands-on experience operating production infrastructure across at least two major clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure) and with modern infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
- You have built and operated modern CI/CD systems, dev environments, and observability stacks. What you've shipped matters more than the size of the fleet you've managed
- You've built and operated infrastructure across different company sizes and business contexts. Cross-domain breadth is a real asset; experience in regulated domains (healthcare, financial services) is helpful but not required
- You hold a strong, well-reasoned point of view on platform philosophy, and can defend when to standardize, when to give teams room, and how to make the safe path the easy path
- You have shipped AI-native operational systems. That might be AI agents that triage alerts, draft RCAs, manage cost, or execute runbooks, or frameworks that let non-traditional contributors (junior engineers, analysts, AI agents, vibe-coders) ship safely
- You're action-oriented on governance and security participation. You document what matters, automate what you can, and don't let process become a bottleneck
- You have built and developed teams. You think about composition intentionally, hire for gaps, and invest in people's growth
- You're a strong communicator: clear, direct, and concise with both technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- This role is about infrastructure and developer enablement
- As our AI strategy evolves, we see a world where many outside of traditional engineering and data roles will contribute to our technology ecosystem
- We believe reliability, security, and cost discipline come from good platform design and automation, and that ticket queues and runbooks are signs we haven't solved the underlying problem
- You'll bring a clear point of view on what a modern, AI-native infrastructure org should look like, the judgment and technical skill to make it real, and the leadership instincts to build and develop the contributors around you
- Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end across our cloud environments, staying hands-on with IaC, CI/CD, and observability alongside the team
- Own the SDLC surface area (dev environments, lower envs, release mechanics, monitoring and response) so engineers can ship in minutes rather than days
- Build the substrate that lets AI agents observe, reason, and act on business systems with safe defaults, and the rails that let AI-assisted apps from people outside of tech be deployed and supported without becoming operational liabilities
- Participate in security operations alongside our SecOps team on CSPM, threat management, and patch management as the infrastructure-side owner of remediations
- Frame infrastructure decisions in terms of business outcomes (operational efficiency, financial impact, clinical results), and make progress and tradeoffs visible to leadership as a natural byproduct of how you work
- Lead and develop a small, high-impact team, and operate as a peer to our SecOps, Data, IT Systems, and App Engineering leaders as a unifying technical force across the org
- Success in this role looks like
- First 90 Days: Develop a clear point of view on the current state of the infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational tooling. Identify the highest-leverage opportunities. Ship a first step-function improvement or eliminate a fundamental operational limitation
- 6 Months: AI-assisted operations are in place for alert triage and incident response. CI/CD and dev environment strategy are coherent across the org. The small team operates in a new operating model with substantially higher leverage per engineer
- Long Term: Infrastructure is a quiet enabler. Engineers, AI agents, and non-tech contributors ship safely and quickly without the platform being the bottleneck. Cloud cost is managed as an engineering discipline. The team is growing skills, increasing capacity, and operating with autonomy
Our take
Clover Health is a medical insurance company operating as a Preferred Provider Orgaization for Medicare Advantage, the Medicare plan for elderly American citizens. It aims to reduce the doctor-insurer friction to increase visibility into the health of patients.
Supported by Clover, physicians are able to focus on people rather than paperwork. It offers patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team, so it is able to rapidly identify potential healthcare risks and provide preventative care. This helps to provide a more sophisticated level of care than existing providers.
Over the years, Clover Health has performed well in a rapidly growing market, despite hitting profitability issues back in 2021. The company smartly focussed in on this issue, and is now expecting to reach profitability in 2026. With the growing number of elderly Americans, the market is only going to get bigger, presenting an opportunity for even bigger growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2019
$500m
SERIES E
May 2017
$130m
SERIES D
Total funding: $925m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave and a life insurance policy
- Commuter benefit program
- 2 paid volunteer days for an organization of your choice
- 401(k) contributions
- Home office reimbursement for full-time employees
- 18 paid vacation days, 9 paid sick days, 10 company holidays, and a floating holiday
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; healthcare and dependent care FSA as well as a health and wellness benefit
Company HQ
Downtown, Nashville, TN
Leadership
Vivek Garipalli
(Founder & Executive Chair)They started out in Healthcare Investment Banking with Credit Suisse before joining the Blackstone Group. They also worked in Private Equity at J.P. Morgan, and co-founded Ensemble Health Partners and CarePoint Health System.
Aric Sharp
(CEO)Has a history of successfully leading healthcare start-up, turnaround, and transformation efforts in a variety of settings including physician practices, clinically integrated networks, large health systems, and insurance products.
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