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About us: We are Lighten, a seed-stage healthcare AI startup that's determined to solve fundamental challenges in driving patient insights from healthcare data. Our founding team comprises former Stanford PhDs and postdocs in clinical informatics and AI, clinicians and healthcare industry veterans. We are well funded by top-tier institutional investors and angels.

We are on a mission to reimagine the value of healthcare data to improve patient outcomes. We are an extraordinarily committed team that values integrity, grit, accountability, generosity, and most fundamentally, being a good human. We are developing frontier LLM-enabled deep technology that pushes the boundary of what's possible, with long-term defensibility. Our goal is to accelerate clinical evidence generation to improve care and research.

We offer competitive salary and employee equity options, 3% company-sponsored 401k contributions, and comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and their families.

Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Senior or Staff level)

You can expect to:

• Own the architecture, design, development and operations of platform infrastructure and customer facing deployments and contribute to launching our first product from 0 to 1 that can handle heterogeneous sources of healthcare data at scale.

• Prototype, optimize, and maintain scalable back-end services that will power new ML and LLM model powered development workflows

• Develop automated processes that build, deploy and test software

• Design and implement/procure cybersecurity solutions that are compliant with all customer requirements and healthcare regulations

• Optimize web applications for performance, speed, and scalability, ensuring fast load times and smooth user interactions.

• Write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards. Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and collaborate with team members to improve code quality and maintainability.

• Design storage solutions and data models that grow with the teams mission and ambitions

• Be an engaged team player in a customer-focused cross-functional environment where you will feel excited to take on whatever is most impactful for the company and product

• Have the ability to work in person in Palo Alto, CA at least 4 days a week

We look for:

• Proficiency in Python and Terraform

• 5+ years Experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering or similar infrastructure roles

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity solutions and best practices.

• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience in delivering distributed and ML systems and services in a production setting for cloud-native applications

• Experience with distributed compute frameworks and data processing pipelines

• Ability to design and build efficient scalable data storage, compute, and retrieval systems for AI/ML tasks

• Previous experience with healthcare data is beneficial but not required

• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We embrace diversity and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.