Intuitive · 10 hours ago
Staff Platform Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$209K/yr - $301K/yr
8+ years expIntuitive is a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery, committed to enhancing minimally invasive care through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to support development teams by focusing on infrastructure automation, cloud integration, and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
Health CareManufacturingMedical Device
Responsibilities
Technical design and architecture of large-scale platform services and infrastructure
Develop high-quality internal platform services, APIs, and tools that serve hundreds of developers
Build self-service platforms and automation frameworks using Python, Go, or similar languages
Design and implement multi-cloud infrastructure patterns using Terraform and IaC best practices
Write CLIs, SDKs, libraries, and Kubernetes operators for internal platform consumption
Define and drive platform engineering standards, best practices, and technical roadmap
Create web applications and dashboards for platform observability and developer experience
Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability
Write automated tests (unit, integration, e2e) and establish testing frameworks
Drive technical decisions on infrastructure, tooling, and technology stack
Deploy and manage workflow orchestration platforms (Apache Airflow) at scale
Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and elevate team technical capabilities
Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on strategic platform initiatives
On-call for critical platform services with focus on building resilient systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience
Expert programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
Strong experience building scalable APIs (REST, gRPC), microservices, and distributed systems
Deep understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale platform solutions
Expert-level experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
Deep Kubernetes expertise including operators, controllers, and cluster management
Experience writing comprehensive automated tests and establishing testing strategies
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and release engineering
Database design, optimization, and scaling (SQL and NoSQL)
Linux/Unix systems programming, networking, and performance tuning
Strong technical leadership and mentorship abilities
Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
Preferred
Active open source contributor or project maintainer with significant community impact
Experience with web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, Gin, Echo) for building internal tools
Frontend development skills (React, Vue.js) for creating developer portals
Kubernetes operator development (kubebuilder, operator-sdk)
Multi-cloud architecture and migration experience
Service mesh implementation and operations (Istio, Linkerd)
Event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar)
Security engineering, IAM, secrets management, and compliance
SRE practices, incident management, and reliability engineering at scale
Performance engineering and cost optimization initiatives
Experience presenting at conferences or tech talks
Company
Intuitive
Intuitive designs and manufactures robotic-assisted surgical systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5MKey Investors
St. Cloud Capital
2003-04-30Post Ipo Equity
2000-06-23IPO
1996-01-01Seed· $5M
Leadership Team
Craig Child
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
Gillian Duncan
Senior Vice President, Professional Education & Program Services - Worldwide
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