Staff Platform Engineer

Telepatia is a high-growth tech company building infrastructure for a regulated healthcare environment. The product is scaling fast. The platform needs to keep up. This hire is foundational, not a support function.

Why this role exists

The platform stack needs an owner. One person who designs, builds, maintains, and takes responsibility for how it runs in production across multi-cloud environments. Not a committee. Not a manager. One engineer with deep enough expertise and ownership instinct to make hard calls fast and live with the consequences.

What You Will Own

• The entire shared backend layer: GraphQL gateways, graph databases, API infrastructure, internal SDKs
• Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP including networking, scaling, security, and orchestration
• Observability, alerting, and incident response systems that work at org scale
• Compliance posture across HIPAA, LGPD, SOC2, ISO 27001, not delegated but owned
• Pulumi modules, automation tooling, and the ongoing refactor of legacy systems
• AI-assisted workflows across incident response, code review, and capacity planning
• Migration and improvement of inherited systems, diagnosed accurately, fixed deliberately

• Write production code and infrastructure-as-code, not review it
• Debug slow queries, analyze traces, resolve production incidents personally
• Make architectural decisions on the shared platform with full accountability
• Evaluate and adopt AI tooling into your daily engineering workflow
• Operate in high ambiguity with limited process and high expectations for output

• Based in Brazil
• Senior hands-on platform or infrastructure engineer, not a manager who used to code
• Deep Kubernetes in production, multi-cloud: AWS and GCP both required
• Direct experience in regulated environments: HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, or LGPD
• Backend engineering depth: you can debug a slow query, read a flame graph, trace a distributed system
• A track record of building 0-to-1 platform capabilities, not just maintaining what exists
• You use AI tools daily and can articulate exactly how they changed the way you work
• You can tell a specific, honest story about a production issue you personally caused and fixed

• Graph databases in production: Neo4j or Amazon Neptune
• Document stores at scale: Firestore or MongoDB
• Healthcare data infrastructure: EHR integrations, FHIR APIs, clinical data pipelines
• You have technically led other engineers without needing a management title to do it

• Your last two years are primarily management or director-level with no significant hands-on coding
• You describe your work as "managed" or "oversaw" rather than "built," "shipped," or "architected"
• No regulated environment experience on your CV
• Not based in Brazil

• CV review
• Intro call: role fit, background, expectations
• Technical screening with the founding team
• Deep-dive interview: production war stories, architectural decisions, live problem-solving
• Offer

Up to $200,000 USD / year. Full-time, remote from Brazil.