Is the Senior Platform Engineer role remote?

No — this is an on-site role in New York City.

What's the salary range?

Translucent lists $200,000–$250,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Platform Engineer role.

Where is the role based?

Translucent is hiring for this position in New York City.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ArgoCD, GCP, GitHub, Golang, Kargo, Kubernetes.

What seniority level is this role?

Translucent targets senior candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Senior Platform Engineer role at Translucent.

Senior Platform Engineer at Translucent

Joblaze summary

The Senior Platform Engineer at Translucent plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining the foundational technology that supports their AI-driven healthcare finance platform. This position requires expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, and programming languages like Python, Golang, and Typescript, along with a strong understanding of relational databases. Ideal candidates will have over five years of industry experience, particularly in regulated sectors like finance or healthtech, and a solid grounding in computational fundamentals. Translucent, a startup founded in 2024, is focused on transforming healthcare finance through innovative AI solutions.

Joblaze insights

Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Translucent's career page.
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Quick facts

Is the Senior Platform Engineer role remote?: No — this is an on-site role in New York City.
What's the salary range?: Translucent lists $200,000–$250,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Platform Engineer role.
Where is the role based?: Translucent is hiring for this position in New York City.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ArgoCD, GCP, GitHub, Golang, Kargo, Kubernetes.
What seniority level is this role?: Translucent targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Platform Engineer role at Translucent.

From the original posting

Why Translucent

Healthcare providers drive $2.5 trillion in medical expenditures annually — and operate on razor-thin 2–5% margins. Despite these stakes, the finance teams behind these organizations are buried in spreadsheets, manual data pulls, and disconnected systems, spending more time finding and cleaning data than actually using it to make decisions.

Translucent is changing that. We're building the agentic AI platform designed exclusively for healthcare finance— giving every finance team, department, service line their own arsenal of AI Agents that run 24/7, understand their specific data, business logic, and workflows.

Founded in 2024 and backed by GV, NEA, FPV, and Virtue, we've already been deployed by healthcare organizations managing over $5 billion in combined revenue. The product-market fit is real, the problem is massive, and we're just getting started. If you want to work at the intersection of AI and one of the most complex, consequential industries in the world — this is the place.

About the role

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer focussed on supporting and enabling data and AI engineering in New York. You will build and maintain the foundational platform technology that enables our data and agentic AI systems and that form our product. You will build and help maintain infrastructure primarily in GCP and you will partner closely with other platform engineers and product engineers in keeping our core systems fast, correct, secure and well-tested.

This is a high-ownership role. You will work directly with a large group of product engineers in enabling our product teams to move fast.

What you'll do

Build and maintain well-tested applications in Python, Typescript and golang.
Build and maintain kubernetes (GKE) deployments and workloads with our preferred gitops approach. We use github, ArgoCD and Kargo.
Manage IaC on GCP.
Build, help deploy and optimize applications using MongoDB Atlas, PostgresQL and Spanner as backing state stores.
Document processes and work to optimize LLM-assisted coding workflows, including optimizing code review strategies.
Partner with product engineers to support rapid feature development.
Validate software is correct and secure.

What we're looking for

Must-haves

Experience with GCP
Strong Kubernetes experience, preferably using GKE (autopilot & standard), strong understanding of the mechanics of workload scaling in GKE
Strong experience with relational databases, managing migrations and experience with Mongo.
Strong Python, golang and Typescript programming experience.
Strong experience with IaC tooling (OpenTofu) - nice to have Atlantis.
Strong grounding in the fundamentals of computation, logic, and algorithms.
5+ years of post-university industry experience

Nice-to-haves

Prior experience in a heavily regulated domain like finance or healthtech.
Experience with Vertex (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
Experience building and deploying agentic systems
Experience building or maintaining Kubernetes operators
Experience with honeycomb.io
Experience with Backstage

Education

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a quantitative discipline: computer science, mathematics, statistics, physical or life sciences, engineering.

Location

Union Square, New York City. In-office 4 days per week.

Anticipated compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 with Equity