Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer at Sully.ai — Remote
- Company: Sully.ai
- Location: Remote
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 175000–200000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
About Us
At Sully.ai, We’re Building the Most Impactful Healthcare Company on Earth
We believe that access to a great doctor is a basic human right. Today, that’s not a reality. Delays, misdiagnoses, administrative chaos, and burnout plague the system.
Our Mission:
One Human, One Doctor. We build AI teammates that augment clinicians — scribes, nurses, receptionists, translators — all powered by our own world-class models and deployed in real-world care.
Our Traction
450+ organizations signed 16 months
AI agents cut admin by ~2.8 hours daily and reduce onboarding 85%.
5M+ Clinical Tasks completed to date, serving 36+ specialties.
Raised $25M from YC, Eric Yuan, Amity, Semper Virens
Patented AI architecture (MedCon-1) outperforms GPT-4.5, Gemini, Claude on clinical reasoning tasks
Sully requires A-players capable of 4 months = 1 year output.
This role is structured as a Contract-to-Hire position with a 60-day trial period. Sully.ai maintains an exceptionally high performance bar, and this structure ensures mutual alignment before transitioning to full-time
What You’ll Do
Own multi‑cloud provisioning, upgrading, and reliability of the core platform
Automate everything via infrastructure as code and GitOps
Ship fully automated deployments across regions
Standardize developer experience across areas such as tooling and CI/CD
Optimize our stack’s scalability and maintain cost‑awareness for AI workloads
What You Must Bring
Senior-level experience & ability in Platform, DevOps, or SRE roles with production Kubernetes across multiple clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), not single‑cloud only.
Proficiency with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code, including ArgoCD and either Terraform or Pulumi.
Strong coding skills in Python or TypeScript for platform tooling and automation.
First-Month Focus
Take a loosely defined platform challenge, write the requirements, and deliver a working solution
Audit platform, CI/CD, and dev tooling with Eng/Product; remove top blockers
Baseline key metrics (lead time, deploy freq, MTTR, cost per token); draft a Platform Playbook
90 Day OKRs
100% infrastructure changes via IaC + GitOps; no console edits
Automated multi‑region deployments across ≥2 clouds; SLOs enforced; MTTR ↓50%
Engineer efficiency up 80–90% on routine workflows; reduced LLM and infra cost
Who Thrives Here
Entrepreneurial to your core: You think in outcomes, thrive in chaos, and take ownership without limits
Mission-obsessed: You’re here to save lives, not just ship features — patients and doctors are your why.
Impact-driven & fast-moving: You sprint toward hard problems and ship with sharp judgment.
Elite teammate: You raise the bar through high standards, direct feedback, and craft excellence.
Why Join Sully.ai?
🔥 Revolutionizing the antiquated $800B+ Healthcare market
🧠 50%+ of us are ex-founders. We hire A-players, not passengers
⚡️ Speed matters - we operate with urgency, autonomy, and ownership
🧪 You’ll work on real, first-of-their-kind problems at the edge of AI and medicine
❤️ Your work helps doctors reclaim their time - and patients get better, faster care