Principal Platform Engineer

GoodRx is America's healthcare marketplace. Each month, millions of people visit goodrx.com to find reliable health information and discounts for their healthcare - and we've helped people save $60 billion since 2011. We provide prescription discounts that are accepted at more than 70,000 pharmacies in the U.S., as well as telehealth services including doctor visits and lab tests. Our services have been positively reviewed by Good Morning America, The New York Times, NBC News, AARP, and many others.
Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.
About the Role
GoodRx is looking for an experienced lead engineer to join our platform team's efforts to accelerate our product development lifecycle by building our next generation of infrastructure and automation. We lovingly refer to this as our "Cloud Experience" team. As cloud technologies have advanced over the past decade so has the complexity and challenges with operating and managing each of these bespoke solutions. No single person can be an expert in every AWS service, the nuances of Kubernetes, or the complexities of every RDBMS solution. Our mission is to help create robust abstractions on top of our cloud technologies so that our product development teams can focus on delivering incredible health care experiences for our customers and not spend time wrangling the latest YAML spec changes with Kubernetes.
Responsibilities:

• Work with our product development teams to understand their workflows and experiences with our cloud technologies and help to eliminate any pain-points that exist
• Study bottlenecks in our release cycles and help to accelerate the delivery of our products through automation and best practices
• Mentor and coach teams on the latest cloud technologies that we support so that they can choose the right tool for the job
• Innovate and iterate on our internal tools that help improve our product development lifecycle

Skills & Qualifications:

• Must have extensive experience (5+ years) working with, and managing, AWS based infrastructure.
• Experience with NGINX, Fastly and Fastly VCL (Varnish Configuration Language)
• 3+ years of working with a production grade Kubernetes environment.
• CDN and edge
• Experience with Docker both in development and production environments.
• Experience leveraging Terraform or similar "Infrastructure as Code" technology.
• Experience working in a traditional product development lifecycle so that you can empathize and relate to our customers (our fellow software engineers).
• Experience with implementing observability (e.g. metrics, logs, tracing) within service/application and tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, Grafana, Sentry.
• Experience writing internal or external tools in GoLang or Typescript..
• Training: Bachelor's degree, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline (In lieu of degree, 4 years of relevant work experience).

Soft Skills:

• Have a passion for helping and educating your colleagues.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Have a desire to learn and continuously educate oneself on the technologies in our stack and those that can further enable us to grow and deliver even faster (without sacrificing quality).
• Show a willingness to receive and give appreciative and constructive feedback so that each of us knows what we do well and where we still have room to grow.
• Have a contagious feeling of joy and love for what you do.

Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general GoodRx best practices, such as reading and adhering to the security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.
At GoodRx, pay ranges are determined based on work locations and may vary based on where the successful candidate is hired. The pay ranges below are shown as a guideline, and the successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant business and organizational factors. These pay zones may be modified in the future. Please contact your recruiter for additional information.
San Francisco and Seattle Offices:
$202,000.00 - $323,000.00
New York Office:
$185,000.00 - $296,000.00
Santa Monica Office:
$168,000.00 - $269,000.00
Other Office Locations:
$151,000.00 - $242,000.00
GoodRx also offers additional compensation programs such as annual cash bonuses and annual equity grants for most positions as well as generous benefits. Our great benefits offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with a company match, an ESPP, unlimited vacation, 13 paid holidays, and 72 hours of sick leave. GoodRx also offers additional benefits like mental wellness and financial wellness programs, fertility benefits, generous parental leave, pet insurance, supplemental life insurance for you and your dependents, company-paid short-term and long-term disability, and more!
We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company and industry. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has a seat at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.
With that said, research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. GoodRx is committed to leveling the playing field, and we encourage women, people of color, those in the LGBTQ+ communities, individuals with disabilities, and Veterans to apply for positions even if they don't necessarily check every box outlined in the job description. Please still get in touch - we'd love to connect and see if you could be good for the role!
GoodRx is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to us at [email protected] .
GoodRx is America's healthcare marketplace. The company offers the most comprehensive and accurate resource for affordable prescription medications in the U.S., gathering pricing information from thousands of pharmacies coast to coast, as well as a tele-health marketplace for online doctor visits and lab tests. Since 2011, Americans with and without health insurance have saved $60 billion using GoodRx and million consumers visit goodrx.com each month to find discounts and information related to their healthcare. GoodRx is the #1 most downloaded medical app on the iOS and Android app stores. For more information, visit www.goodrx.com .