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# Principal Network Engineer at Blink Health

- **Company:** Blink Health
- **Location:** New York, NY / Pittsburgh, PA / Seattle, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blinkhealth/jobs/8891450002

## Job description

Company Overview:

[Blink Health](https://www.blinkhealth.com/)is the fastest growing healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody.  Our two primary products – BlinkRx and Quick Save – remove traditional roadblocks within the current prescription supply chain, resulting in better access to critical medications and improved health outcomes for patients.

[BlinkRx](https://www.blinkhealth.com/blinkrx)is the world’s first pharma-to-patient cloud that offers a digital concierge service for patients who are prescribed branded medications. Patients benefit from transparent low prices, free home delivery, and world-class support on this first-of-its-kind centralized platform. With BlinkRx, never again will a patient show up at the pharmacy only to discover that they can’t afford their medication, their doctor needs to fill out a form for them, or the pharmacy doesn’t have the medication in stock.

We are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!

## About the Role

Blink Health is looking for a Principal Network Engineer to set the technical direction for our network and connectivity strategy across our offices and cloud environments. You’ll own the architecture of our routing, switching, VPN, firewall, and cloud networking infrastructure, and act as the company’s senior authority on network design, security, and resilience. This is a hands-on, high-influence role for someone who can design for scale, solve the hardest problems, and raise the bar for the engineers around them.

## What You’ll Do

- Define and own Blink’s network architecture and multi-year roadmap across on-prem and AWS, including Meraki, Palo Alto, AWS VPC, and AWS Transit Gateway
- Serve as the senior technical authority for network design in a microservices and container-based environment (AWS, Kubernetes), partnering with engineering, security, and platform teams on high-impact decisions
- Drive network-as-code and automation (IaC, CI/CD, config management) to make the network repeatable, auditable, and self-service where possible
- Establish network design standards and guardrails for security, compliance, redundancy, and high availability, and ensure they are adopted across teams
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of new products and solutions, building business cases and presenting recommendations to IT and engineering leadership
- Lead architecture for complex initiatives such as new site build-outs, cloud migrations, network segmentation, zero trust, and M&A integration
- Serve as the final technical escalation point for critical incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive systemic fixes
- Partner with security to define hardening and patching standards, and to investigate and remediate security incidents with network impact
- Design observability and monitoring strategy for network health, performance, and capacity planning
- Mentor and develop network, systems, and service desk staff; build runbooks and training that scale expertise across the team
- Own technical documentation and architecture decision records for critical systems
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive-level updates on risk, incidents, and major changes
- Participate in on-call rotation as a senior escalation resource

## What You’ll Need

- 10+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise network environments, with a strong track record in hybrid on-prem and cloud
- Proven experience architecting and leading large-scale network initiatives in AWS and Kubernetes-based microservices environments
- Expert-level knowledge of IPSec/VPN, DNS, SNMP, OSPF, BGP, AWS VPC, Security Groups, peering, Transit Gateway, and advanced routing
- Deep understanding of how cloud, container, and virtualization technologies affect network performance, security, and design
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and network automation (e.g., Terraform, Python, Ansible)
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, set standards, and drive cross-functional alignment
- Experience designing for compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for leadership

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect) and Cisco Meraki at scale
- Experience with service mesh, CNI, or Kubernetes networking internals
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, PCNSE, CCNP/CCIE)

Logistics

- Comfortable working in the Eastern Time Zone
- Ability to travel up to 10% to office sites
- Ability to work up to 4 days a week in our NYC, St. Louis, or Pittsburgh office

Why Join Us:

It is rare to have a company that both deeply impacts its customers and is able to provide its services across a massive population.  At Blink, we have a huge impact on people when they are most vulnerable: at the intersection of their healthcare and finances. We are also the fastest growing healthcare company in the country and are driving that impact across millions of new patients every year.  Our business model not only helps people, but drives economics that allow us to build a generational company. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious, and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Applicants who provide their phone number and consent to receive text messages may receive SMS or MMS updates from Blink Health regarding their application.

## About Blink Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blink Health is a healthcare technology company that builds products to make prescription medications more accessible and affordable for all Americans, primarily through its BlinkRx pharma-to-patient cloud platform and Quick Save discount card.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Matthew Chaiken (Co-Founder), Geoff Chaiken (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare Technology (HealthTech), Digital Pharmacy, Prescription Discount Services
- **Target customers**: Patients (B2C), Pharmaceutical companies (B2B), Healthcare providers/physicians
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make prescriptions accessible and affordable to everybody, removing traditional roadblocks within the prescription supply chain to improve health outcomes.

## Products & Services
- **[BlinkRx]**: The world's first pharma-to-patient cloud. A digital concierge service for patients prescribed branded medications, offering transparent low prices, free home delivery, and world-class support. It centralizes the process so patients no longer face affordability, paperwork, or inventory issues at the pharmacy.
- **[Quick Save]**: A discount prescription card product that helps patients save on medications, likely at local pharmacies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$40.0M** (latest estimate) | **Total Funding**: **$316.0M** across 6 rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Key investors include **8VC** (led Series A and Series B), **SuRo Capital** (led a 2020 round). The company has also hired talent from Amazon, Walgreens, CVS Health, and Microsoft.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **33.8% year-over-year** (reaching ~471 employees). The company has a strong presence with offices in the US, India, and Colombia. Job postings are up **45.6% year-over-year**, indicating aggressive expansion. LinkedIn followers grew **92.6% year-over-year**.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in Pharma-to-Patient Cloud**: BlinkRx is a unique, centralized platform that directly connects pharmaceutical companies to patients, solving a fragmented and frustrating experience.
- **Massive Addressable Problem**: The company addresses a critical pain point at the intersection of healthcare and personal finance—affordability and access to medication.
- **Strong Growth Trajectory**: Rapid headcount and follower growth suggest strong market validation and product-market fit.
- **Cross-Industry Talent Pool**: The company attracts talent from top tech (Amazon, Microsoft) and healthcare/pharmacy (CVS, Walgreens) giants, blending engineering, operations, and healthcare expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the BlinkRx Platform**: The primary focus is on expanding the reach and capabilities of the pharma-to-patient cloud.
- **Operational Excellence**: With recent job postings for roles like "Manager, Operational Excellence," the company is investing in streamlining its pharmacy network, fulfillment, and customer service operations.
- **Data & AI**: The recent departure of the VP of Data and AI suggests a possible restructuring or evolution of its data strategy, but the role's existence highlights a focus on leveraging data for better patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **High Impact Work**: The company directly helps people at a vulnerable intersection of health and finances, providing a strong sense of purpose.
- **Fast-Growing Environment**: With 33% YoY headcount growth and a startup culture described as "relentlessly learning and constantly curious," employees can expect rapid professional development. The company is described as a "highly collaborative team of builders and operators."
- **Hybrid & Remote Options**: The company offers a mix of onsite, hybrid, and remote roles. Specific roles are listed for onsite locations (Chesterfield, MO; Pittsburgh, PA) and hybrid/remote for others (e.g., New York, NY). The Indeed profile notes "work from home" as a benefit.
- **Culture**: The company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. It promotes a culture of invention and collaboration in an industry resistant to change.
- **Notable Perks**: Flexible work schedules. The company has a presence in multiple countries, offering potential for global collaboration.

## Sources
1. [Blink Health Website](https://www.blinkhealth.com/)
2. [Blink Health Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blinkhealth)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blink-health/life)
4. [Indeed Company Page](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Blink-Health)

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