Staff Platform Engineer

What this company does

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

What you will actually do day to day

• 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

What you need

• 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

What gives you an edge

• 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

What will disqualify you

• 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

Recruitment process

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

Compensation

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