--- title: 'Platform Engineer at Vitalize' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-vitalize-remote-1q3by8367qrk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-12' --- # Platform Engineer at Vitalize - **Company:** Vitalize - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $175k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vitalize/6d9347cb-f118-4186-a382-a0d94af582b5 ## Job description ## About Vitalize Our Vision: Unlock Healthcare's Full Capacity Health systems still run critical operations like staffing, labor planning, and capacity on spreadsheets, phone calls, and guesswork. Vitalize is building the AI operating system for how health systems manage labor and capacity. The impact is real: we save hospitals millions in unnecessary labor spend, give clinical leaders back 10–20 hours every week, and are often the reason staff and leaders stay. We’re trusted by leading health systems across the country and have raised more than $31M from top healthcare and technology investors, including our own customers. ## Our Values We hire and grow everyone against the same four values. Each one comes from a real Vitalize story—interview with us to hear them! - 🚗 Push the Car. Step in regardless of role. We help wherever we're needed, own problems end to end, and don't stay in our lane. People can count on us. - 🏥 Premier 1K. We show up for our customers, always. Nearly everyone visits a customer site in their first month, and customer feedback informs everything we do. - 🗣️ Run Towards the Ugly. Name the ugliest truth first, then propose the fix. Candor over comfort—we call out what's broken, and never get complacent. This shapes our craft. - 💡 Think Bigger Fridays. See the gap, fill it—no permission required. Every decision is an experiment: we run it, let the results decide, and drive real impact from day one. ## About Vitalize's Platform Team Platform encompasses everything from infrastructure that takes the app from [localhost](http://localhost) to production, to the developer tooling that allows our developers to focus on product, to the security that keeps our customers’ data safe, and much more. The Platform Team at Vitalize is unique in that we get to decide and own what it means to adopt AI in our workflows. Our job extends beyond traditional DevOps and into AI leadership. This means setting the AI roadmap for the Engineering and broader organization—deciding what workflows to bet on and what tools to incorporate. ## The Role We are hiring our second Platform Team member. The role starts with the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Building on that is a deep understanding of common infrastructure patterns like cybersecurity, observability, and CI/CD. Finally, the role expands to include developer tooling and building internal apps and features that extend beyond the engineering team (e.g. internal agent workflows, onboarding tools, etc.). This means: AWS/EKS -> Vanta/Grafana/Buildkite -> React/Effect/Bun. ## What You'll Do - Own CI/CD end to end—pipeline code, test orchestration, deploy safety, preview environments (we use Buildkite + self-hosted runners) - Maintain our EKS cluster (along with the AWS infrastructure that supports it) - Build developer tooling with internal stakeholders at the forefront - Own what observability means—what are the right tools? What’s the best way to get alerts? How do we get the right data to the right people at the right time? - Maintain a strong security and compliance posture across all services, both internal and external - Lead AI adoption across Engineering—decide which agent workflows to integrate, which tools to adopt, and build and maintain custom solutions for stakeholders across the organization - Extend beyond traditional Infra/DevOps to include product analytics capture and analysis, as well as helping build and maintain data pipelines to share critical information with leadership & customers ## What You'll Bring - Passion for the space—You have a deep passion for infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI - Empathy for engineers—You understand other engineers and their needs - End-to-end ownership—You own your work end to end, including when it goes wrong - Bias to action—You want to ship fast and fix fast - Curiosity about emerging technology—You’re eager to adopt cutting-edge ways of working (e.g., what does it mean to deeply integrate with AI tools?) - Team mentality—You believe in “our code”—you might not have written it, but we’re a team and we’re going to fix it together ## Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 401(k) with company match - Flexible PTO - Unlimited travel budget to visit customer sites - Twice-yearly company off-sites - Free meals in the office - $5,000 relocation bonus for eligible employees - Desk setup reimbursement - Commuter benefits - Monthly gym/wellness stipend - An awesome office in Jackson Square, steps from the water ## About Vitalize ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Vitalize provides an AI-powered platform that unifies staffing, scheduling, flow, and capacity for health systems, replacing manual processes with proactive, optimized operations. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 (per LinkedIn) / 2023 (per Y Combinator batch) - **Founders**: Sanketh Andhavarapu (Co-Founder & CPO), Veeraj Shah (Co-Founder & CEO), Nikhil D'Souza (Co-Founder & CTO, departed April 2026) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare operations technology (staffing, scheduling, workforce management) - **Target customers**: B2B – health systems, hospitals, acute, procedural, and ambulatory care organizations - **Mission**: Build a world where hospital operations are safe, autonomous, fair, and cost-effective ## Products & Services - **AI-Powered Scheduling**: Automates shift creation and filling, reducing manual scheduling time by ~70%. - **Predictive Analytics**: Proactive insights on workforce strategy, volume, acuity, and cost to optimize staffing decisions. - **Flow and Capacity Optimization**: Integrates volume, acuity, cost, skills, and patient flow into every staffing decision. - **Command Center for Staffing Offices**: Centralized dashboard enabling optimal decisions while removing manual processes and subjectivity. - **Integrations**: Connects with existing HR, payroll, T&A, and EMR systems so teams can see value without changing workflows. All offerings are delivered as a SaaS platform with deep change management support. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding – seed rounds in 2022 (1 investor) and April 2023 (8 investors, led by Y Combinator); amount not publicly stated. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead), Tom Blomfield (primary YC partner), and other top healthcare/technology investors. Customers include MemorialCare and Hendrick Health. - **Growth Signals**: - Grew 8× in under 18 months - Deployed across dozens of hospitals, used by tens of thousands of clinical staff - Headcount grew 168% YoY to ~30 employees (as of mid-2026) - Operating in 5 countries (US, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) - Active job postings: 9 (as of July 2026), with monthly posting growth of +12.5% ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified platform** covering staffing, scheduling, flow, and capacity – not a point solution. - **On-site change management** – team embeds with customers from day one to drive adoption and ROI. - **Deep integrations** with existing hospital systems (HR, payroll, EMR) minimize disruption. - **Predictive AI** that proactively identifies gaps and recommends best-fit staff, reducing premium shift use and FTE leakage. - **Demonstrated ROI** within 90 days, with customer testimonials citing massive improvements in productivity and labor cost reduction. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding across acute, procedural, and ambulatory care within health systems. - Deepen integrations and predictive capabilities to further automate labor operations. - Scale the customer base and headcount, particularly in engineering, product, and deployment roles. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Customer-obsession to the extreme – team members have moved on-site to live at customer sites and taken flights with 2 hours’ notice to visit users. - **Autonomy**: “Everyone has unusual freedom to take initiative” – ownership of problems end-to-end, no micromanagement. - **Values**: Move fast (decide, act, iterate), relentless curiosity, challenge the status quo, unorthodox thinking. - **Equity**: Everyone is an owner. - **Work policy**: Remote US allowed (per YC job postings), with HQ in San Francisco. Many roles require on-site presence at customer hospitals. - **Engineering culture**: Senior Full-Stack Engineer and Senior Product Engineer roles listed with competitive salary ranges ($180K–$260K + equity). Emphasis on building modern technology to replace paper-based hospital operations. ## Sources 1. [vitalize.care](https://vitalize.care/) 2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vitalize) 3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vitalize) 4. 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