About xCures:
xCures is redefining how healthcare organizations access, trust, and act on patient data. Our mission is to ensure that critical patient information is available when, where, and how it’s needed most — helping care providers and partners make faster, better-informed decisions that improve health outcomes.
Our AI-powered software platform aggregates, structures, normalizes, and distills patient health data from care encounters nationwide. Within minutes, xCures delivers validated, traceable, and clinically actionable insights, addressing healthcare’s most persistent challenges: missing data, messy data, and opaque insights. Our driving purpose is to equip our partners, such that they are enabled to provide care and services in a form that inspires confidence and provides real clinical utility.
At xCures, quality and trust are not features — they’re foundational to the tools we’ve built. Our work is driven by precision, performance, and purpose. xCures is excited to champion responsible interoperability and the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, when done with the right values at the front of mind.
About the role:
The Platform Engineer is a member of a highly motivated, cross functional engineering team. This role works closely with Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs and Engineering resources to design, analyze, develop, test and document in support of the xCures SaaS Platform. They will leverage key development, database, reporting and analytic skills across a diverse and multi-faceted application landscape. The Platform Engineer will work on multiple projects simultaneously and perform on-going research to explore new offerings and technologies to improve our infrastructure and data science workload pipeline.
This job is right for you if you like:
- Solving problems that make a real difference in people’s lives and wellbeing.
- Rapid growth and the ability to make a personal, directional impact on strategy/execution.
- Guiding innovative products, services, and processes from idea to user adoption
- Rockstar teammates: an unparalleled team with decades of prior work experience in artificial intelligence, software systems, molecular biology, clinical oncology, clinical and regulatory operations, and related fields
Responsibilities
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Design, build and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure, including tuning of high-volume Open Search clusters, and EC2-based load-balanced services, to support our applications.
- Support the implementation and enforcement of security policies, standards, and best practices to protect systems, applications, and data.
- Assist in monitoring system activity, logs, and alerts to identify potential security incidents, anomalies, or performance issues.
- Participate in routine vulnerability scanning, risk assessments, and remediation tracking
- Help ensure compliance with applicable regulations and frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST)
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to validate secure configurations and access controls.
- Support incident response activities, including investigation, documentation, and post-incident analysis.
- Monitor application and infrastructure health using observability tools to ensure availability, reliability, and performance.
- Assist with audit preparation, evidence collection, and continuous control monitoring.
- Document security findings, monitoring results, and corrective actions clearly and accurately.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of security and monitoring processes through testing, feedback, and automation.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand their infrastructure needs and provide solutions that meet those requirements.
- Develop and implement automation scripts for provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure as code components.
- Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure consistency and repeatability in deployments.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configuration, processes, and procedures.
Worksite Location: Fully remote; occasional travel
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred) from four-year college or university and 4 years’ experience or master’s degree in Computer Science; or comparable experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience as a Platform Engineer or similar in a Healthcare DevOps environment.
- Strong proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker)
- Proficiency with and strong working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS)
- Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing them in infrastructure design.
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile startup environment
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, RedShift, MySQL, DynamoDB)
- Experience with completely serverless applications leveraging AWS Lambda
- Working with large-scale data warehouses, collection, and organization of real-time streaming data.
- Experience with Git/Github or comparable distributed version control system leveraging AWS Code pipeline for build and deployment automation
- Practical experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Experience with developing and documenting Restful API and Webhooks.
- Experience with OLAP and OLTP system workload management
- Familiarity with Cypress or similar testing automation tools for ensuring the reliability of quality of applications.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools
Notes
This is a big list. Don’t worry if you do not meet every qualification or Wishlist item. If you are passionate, ambitious, adept, and mission-aligned, then we want to hear from you — even if you don’t check every box listed here. True talent shines through and transcends a list of bullet points.
If you possess the required skills and have a passion for leveraging AWS technologies to architect scalable and robust data solutions, we would love to hear from you. Join our team and contribute to shaping the future of our data infrastructure with cutting-edge technologies and innovative approaches.
To apply, please send your cover letter and resume to dev-jobs@xcures.com. No agency resumes accepted.
Comp & Benefits:
- Salary range : 130K to $175K annually
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- 401K
- Equity options
xCures acknowledges that equal opportunity for all persons is a fundamental human value. Each employee and applicant will be considered on the basis of individual ability and merit, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristics.