Sr. Platform Engineer

GoodRx is the leading prescription savings platform in the U.S. Trusted by more than 25 million consumers and 750,000 healthcare professionals annually, GoodRx provides access to savings and affordability options for generic and brand-name medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, as well as comprehensive healthcare research and information. Since 2011, GoodRx has helped consumers save nearly $75 billion on the cost of their prescriptions.

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and evolve highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS and GCP. Applying sound architectural judgment and long-term systems thinking while balancing cost.

• Design and develop reusable platform tooling and infrastructure-as-code modules that accelerate build and release management while improving reliability and consistency across teams.

• Passionate about improving processes through automation, process engineering, artificial intelligence and documentation.

• Partner with application engineering teams to define, improve, and enforce operational standards, deployment practices, and reliability expectations across services.

• Independently lead complex infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and performance optimization initiatives.

• Conduct structured root cause analysis for production incidents and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to platform architecture, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Document architectural decisions, operational standards, and runbooks to improve organizational knowledge sharing.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Platform Engineer team members on infrastructure design and DevOps best practices.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Extensive experience architecting and operating automated Linux-based cloud infrastructure in production environments.

• Strong experience designing and operating complex CI/CD pipelines (blue/green, canary, multi-stage) in large-scale production environments.

• Deep hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent), including reusable module design and environment standardization.

• Strong software engineering background in Python, Go, or similar languages, with the ability to build automation and tooling to solve complex operational challenges.

• Build and release experience with tools such as Github Actions, GitlabCI, Codefresh or similar.

• Hands-on experience using AI to speed up research, coding, troubleshooting, and documentation workflows.

• Experience designing observability systems using APM, metrics, logs, and tracing tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, SumoLogic, etc.) to proactively manage reliability.

• Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production, including workload orchestration, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex, multi-system issues.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to advise senior engineering partners and clearly communicate technical trade-offs.

• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Engineering teams are responsible for supporting appropriate security controls, including management, operational, and technical controls in addition to general GoodRx best practices, such as reading and adhering to the security policies and procedures, being vigilant and observant of potential security threats, etc.

At GoodRx, pay ranges are determined based on work locations and may vary based on where the successful candidate is hired. The pay ranges below are shown as a guideline, and the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant business and organizational factors. These pay zones may be modified in the future. Please contact your recruiter for additional information.

San Francisco and Seattle Offices:

$161,000.00 - $257,000.00

New York Office:

$147,000.00 - $235,000.00

Santa Monica Office:

$134,000.00 - $214,000.00

Other Office Locations:

$121,000.00 - $193,000.00

GoodRx also offers additional compensation programs such as annual cash bonuses or commission, and ann