Senior DevOps Engineer

About Stellar Health:

Historically, US Healthcare has relied on a fee-for-service reimbursement system where providers are paid based on the quantity of patient visits and procedures, rather than the quality of health outcomes.

At Stellar Health, we help primary care providers put patient health first. Our platform - a mix of technology, people, and analytics - supports providers at the point of care, delivering real-time patient information, activating practice staff, and empowering providers and care teams with incentives that reward the work they are already doing to keep patients healthy. Using the Stellar App, our web-based, point-of-care tool; practices receive a simple checklist of recommended actions that support the best quality care. Providers and care teams are then paid monthly for each action they complete, and Payors save money in reduced healthcare costs along the way.

Stellar is a US-based Health-tech backed by Top VCs (General Atlantic, Point72, & Primary Venture Partners)​​ with an established product & proven operating model. We’ve shown that we make a real difference for physician practices and their patients.

About the position:  

Stellar Health is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, DevOps, you will collaborate daily with fellow DevOps engineers and cross-functional engineering teams to build a scalable, high-performing foundation.

Our team exists to enable product engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality software quickly and safely. We build the foundation of our engineering organization, providing a delivery platform, shared infrastructure, architectural standards, and technical guidance. Our mission is to provide a stable, scalable, and secure internal platform that empowers engineering teams to self-serve infrastructure, deploy confidently, and operate production systems with high reliability.

We apply DevOps principles, collaboration, automation, and shared ownership, but we don't own product features or business logic. Our role is to remove friction, improve reliability, and scale engineering effectiveness.

How you'll make an impact:  

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of core platform initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and partner cross-functionally across Engineering, Data, and Product.

• AWS & Infrastructure as Code: Design and maintain HIPAA-compliant, multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt with a strict GitOps mindset.

• CI/CD & Deployments: Build resilient GitHub Actions pipelines and implement safe release strategies (e.g., Blue/Green, automated rollbacks) for Python/Django applications.

• Service Reliability & Scaling: Ensure high availability, automated backups, and version upgrades for core data stores, including Postgres, ElastiCache (Redis), and OpenSearch.

• Observability & Incident Response: Mature full-stack Datadog/CloudWatch telemetry, refine on-call workflows, lead blameless postmortems, and drive key metrics (MTTR, deployment frequency).

• Automated Security: Enforce least-privilege access and automated security guardrails across AWS, database layers, and GitHub.

• Developer Enablement: Create paved-path tooling and self-serve infrastructure that reduce friction, shorten test cycles, and lower cognitive load for product teams.

• Technical Leadership: Author clear design docs, conduct thorough code reviews, mentor team members, and proactively identify operational risks before they impact production.

What you'll bring:

• 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or related role, including hands-on ownership of production cloud infrastructure

• Deep familiarity with AWS services (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM, VPC, and others), multi-account AWS architecture, and HIPAA/compliance-aware infrastructure patterns

• Strong IaC skills - Terraform and/or Terragrunt in a production environment, including state management and drift detection

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), including safe deployment patterns like Blue/Green

• Solid scripting ability in Python and/or Bash

• Demonstrated experience with observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)

• Ability to debug complex, cross-system issues without flailing

• Experience mentoring or guiding earlier-career engineers

• Strong written communication skills; comfortable writing design docs, runbooks, and async technical updates

• Familiarity with database operations (Postgres, Redis) in a production context

Perks & Benefits:

Stellar offers a carefully curated selection of wellness benefits and perks to our employees:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

• Flexible PTO

• Universal Paid Family and Caregiver Leave

• Wellhub+ Gym Memberships

• Pre-tax commuter benefits, HA, FSA plans

• Company sponsored One Medical memberships and Citibike memberships

• Medical Travel Benefits

• JOON, a flexible lifestyle spending account that gives our team a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to them

• Stock Options & a 401k matching program

• A broad calendar of company sponsored social events that for our in-office and remote employees

• Company sponsored lunch for all NY HQ employees

Diversity is the key to our success. Stellar Health is an equal opportunity employer and we are open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

We believe that diverse teams -and the different identities, cultures, and life experiences our team members bring to the table- enable us to create amazing products, find creative solutions to interesting problems, and build an inclusive working environment.

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• Please note that any communication from our recruiters and hiring managers at Stellar Health about a job opportunity will only be made by a Stellar Health employee with an @stellar.health email address.

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