Senior Backend Engineer

U.S. healthcare is frustrating and deeply flawed. Cedar's mission is to drive better outcomes for everyone involved, including providers, insurance companies and the people they serve. At a time when consumer-friendly healthcare experiences are more critical than ever, our platform is uniquely equipped to solve problems that lead to billing issues and administrative waste. At Cedar, know that your work will have a meaningful impact on people's lives.
The Role
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. The platform leverages data science and technology to deliver modern intelligence to providers and simplify the healthcare experience for patients.
The Platform pillar is tasked with building, delivering, and maintaining the technology platforms that Cedar builds its business on. Our Platform Core squad is responsible for the care and feeding of our software stack. They tackle large sophisticated projects to enable the business to scale, ensure our developers have a best-in-class runtime and development environments, help debug complex application issues, and make strategic bets on technology to enable new innovation.
We are looking for a thoughtful and experienced Backend Engineer to join our Platform Core team and level up this core function, partnering with us as we grow a world-class Engineering organization. They will identify and resolve a production bug in our data pipeline at one moment and forklifting our codebase to accommodate a major Django version bump the next.
Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain tools for a self-service infrastructure that improves developer efficiency and code reliability
• Help scale and solidify Cedar's production application infrastructure
• Maintain a broad and deep knowledge base of our entire platform
• Build out solutions for monitoring and application performance management
• Own the Cedar cloud platform, seeking out and actualizing opportunities to reduce cost and improve stability
• Facilitate and mediate design discussions involving multiple teams
• Take a leadership role in multiple simultaneous high-impact projects
• Communicate clearly in verbal and written forms, from peer training to design documents
• Help us grow the company, culture, and our products

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of Backend, DevOps, infrastructure, or site reliability experience
• Expertise with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, and S3
• Managed Linux systems and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Significant experience deploying applications/tools into production cloud environments with configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef and/or Puppet
• Excellent scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
• Proficiency with modern networking for private cloud and public Internet services
• Familiarity with database performance management

Compensation Range and Benefits

• Salary Range*: $161,500 - $190,000
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education
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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days-we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar's valuation to $3.2 billion.
Today, Cedar helps over 15 million patients annually-and partners with more than 50 leading healthcare providers, including Yale New Haven Health, Summit Health, Novant Health, Allina Health, Providence, ChristianaCare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, CommonSpirit Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.