Platform Engineer

• Ways of Working:
  Onsite - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 209100 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 5 (13)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 177800 USD

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long‑term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary Function:

We are seeking an experienced Staff Platform Engineer with 5‑8+ years of proven experience in regulated environments. The ideal candidate will support small to mid‑sized development teams, focusing on infrastructure automation, cloud integration, and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

• Technical design and architecture of large‑scale platform services and infrastructure
• Develop high‑quality internal platform services, APIs, and tools that serve hundreds of developers
• Build self‑service platforms and automation frameworks using Python, Go, or similar languages
• Design and implement multi‑cloud infrastructure patterns using Terraform and IaC best practices
• Write CLIs, SDKs, libraries, and Kubernetes operators for internal platform consumption
• Define and drive platform engineering standards, best practices, and technical roadmap
• Create web applications and dashboards for platform observability and developer experience
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability
• Write automated tests (unit, integration, e2e) and establish testing frameworks
• Drive technical decisions on infrastructure, tooling, and technology stack
• Deploy and manage workflow orchestration platforms (Apache Airflow) at scale
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and elevate team technical capabilities
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on strategic platform initiatives
• On‑call for critical platform services with focus on building resilient systems

Required:

• 8+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience
• Expert programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
• Strong experience building scalable APIs (REST, gRPC), microservices, and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering large‑scale platform solutions
• Expert‑level experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Cloud Formation)
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including operators, controllers, and cluster management
• Experience writing comprehensive automated tests and establishing testing strategies
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git Ops workflows, and release engineering
• Database design,, and scaling (SQL and No
  
  SQL)
• Linux/Unix systems programming, networking, and performance tuning
• Strong technical leadership and mentorship abilities
• Excelle…