Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer Telepatia seeks a hands-on Staff Platform Engineer in Brazil to own the shared platform — from multi-cloud infra to compliance tooling. Be decisive, ship fast, and own the impact. Apply Here We usually respond within a day 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. Locations Sao Paulo Remote status Fully Remote Yearly salary $180,000 - $200,000 Employment type Full-time Employment level Professionals