Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform

About the role

At Candid Health, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to support and enable our core Platform and Infrastructure teams in planning, executing, and delivering the Candid platform to our healthcare provider customers who rely on it for mission-critical financial and operational workflows. This hire will report directly to our Head of Engineering, Jason Rosenfeld , and work closely with our Founders and Leadership team. Your scope of ownership will encompass Candid's scalability, reliability, application performance, data pipelines, developer experience, load testing, and AI tooling strategy. The teams rolling up to you are responsible for building and maintaining key infrastructure components of a complex and and evolving architecture - their mandate is to uphold best-in-class quality, durability, and performance standards for the Candid platform. You will be responsible for guiding and collaborating with skilled engineers and tech leads, fostering their growth and ensuring they contribute effectively. To start, you'll manage at least 3 distinct teams: Production Infrastructure : run our compute, networking, observability, data storage, and auth infrastructure Developer Infrastructure : in charge of internal tooling, dev productivity, AI tooling, testing infra, languages + libraries, and CI/CD systems Data Engineering : own data streaming, eventing and pub/sub infra, data warehouse, and data reporting infra. This role involves deeply cross-functional teamwork. Collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams will be crucial as you help define and execute our long-term product strategy. You will also partner closely with security, data privacy/compliance teams to keep our cu