Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
Opportunity Overview:
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering to help shape the future of how we build, deploy, and operate software at Cohere. In this role, you’ll drive improvements across DevOps, SRE, and developer experience - building a platform that is scalable, reliable, and intuitive for engineers to use. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to enable high-quality, high-velocity delivery across the organization, with a direct impact on how our teams ship software at scale.
What you’ll do:
- Lead development of scalable, reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure
- Drive deployment and release strategies to improve safety, consistency, and speed
- Improve developer experience through CI/CD enhancements and faster feedback cycles
- Establish observability and SRE practices to strengthen monitoring, reliability, and incident response
- Design environments that support consistent testing, validation, and safe releases
- Partner cross-functionally and provide technical leadership, mentoring teams on platform and reliability best practices
What you’ll need:
- 9+ years of experience across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE
- Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable platform systems supporting production workloads
- Strong backend experience (Java/Spring or similar) and hands-on experience with AWS, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines
- Deep understanding of system design, observability, and production operations
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, modern deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), and messaging systems
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and proactively improve platform performance and developer productivity
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Pay & Perks:
💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account
🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays
👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
🐶 Pet insurance
The salary range for this position is $185,000 to $210,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.
Interview Process*:
- Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
- Meet your Hiring Manager!
- System Design Interview
- Technical Discussion
- Cross Functional Interview
*Subject to change
About Cohere Health :
Cohere Health ’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers ar