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Staff DevOps Engineer (Developer Experience)

San Francisco, California

Heartflow is a medical technology company advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease, the #1 cause of death worldwide, using cutting-edge technology. The flagship product—an AI-driven, non-invasive cardiac test supported by the ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines called the Heartflow FFRCT Analysis—provides a color-coded, 3D model of a patient’s coronary arteries indicating the impact blockages have on blood flow to the heart. Heartflow is the first AI-driven non-invasive integrated heart care solution across the CCTA pathway that helps clinicians identify stenoses in the coronary arteries (RoadMap™Analysis), assess coronary blood flow (FFRCT Analysis), and characterize and quantify coronary atherosclerosis (Plaque Analysis). Our pipeline of products is growing and so is our team; join us in helping to revolutionize precision heartcare.

Heartflow is a publicly traded company (HTFL) that has received international recognition for exceptional strides in healthcare innovation, is supported by medical societies around the world, cleared for use in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and Canada, and has been used for more than 400,000 patients worldwide.  

Heartflow is transforming cardiovascular care with cutting-edge, non-invasive technology. We are launching a massive Platform Modernization initiative to power the next generation of our life-saving medical products.

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team, focusing specifically on Developer Experience (DevEx). You'll be instrumental in designing, building, and optimizing the tools, services, and infrastructure that power our engineering organization. Your primary goal will be to remove friction from the development lifecycle, allowing our product teams to deliver value faster, more reliably, and with greater joy.

Job Responsibilities

As a Staff Platform Engineer specializing in Developer Experience, you'll be a technical leader and advocate for our internal engineering customers. You will leverage your deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, software development best practices, and developer tooling to drive significant improvements across the entire software development lifecycle - from code creation and testing to deployment and production monitoring. This role requires a strong blend of technical excellence, empathy for the developer workflow, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for our core developer platform, with a strong focus on self-service tooling, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and standardized development environments.
  • Architect and implement scalable, reliable platform services and tools (e.g., internal CLI tools, custom GitHub Actions/GitLab CI pipelines, scaffolding tools, testing frameworks) that dramatically improve developer productivity.
  • Partner with engineering teams to understand their pain points and drive the adoption of new platform features and best practices through excellent documentation, training, and direct consultation.
  • Establish technical standards and governance models for critical areas like observability, security integration, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
  • Act as a technical mentor for mid-level and senior engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence and high-quality engineering.
  • Proactively identify systemic bottlenecks and performance issues in the development and deployment process and lead the initiative to resolve them.

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, or platform engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or staff-level capacity, driving cross-team technical initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Strong proficiency in AWS and hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and/or Terragrunt.
  • Advanced programming skills in a general-purpose language used for tooling and platform services (Go, Python, or TypeScript preferred).
  • Experience building internal developer portals or highly effective self-service developer tools.
  • Prior experience specifically focused on improving Developer Experience (DevEx) or internal tooling.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to present complex technical ideas to diverse audiences and influence technical decisions.

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience implementing monorepo and IDP using Backstage. 
  • A strong background in observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
  • Experience with Service Mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
  • Contributions to open-source developer tools or platform technologies.

#devex #devops #kubernetes

A reasonable estimate of the base salary compensation range is $185,750 to $250,922, cash bonus, and equity. #LI-IB1 #LI-Hybrid; 

Heartflow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at Heartflow, including recruitment, hiring, training, relocation, promotion, and termination.
 
Positions posted for Heartflow are not intended for or open to third party recruiters / agencies. Submission of any unsolicited resumes for these positions will be considered to be free referrals.
 
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