Senior Systems Engineer
Xealth · Seattle, WA
$145,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior platform/infrastructure engineering role centered on owning and evolving an AWS EKS Kubernetes environment at a healthcare technology company. Day-to-day work spans cluster operations and upgrades, GitOps pipelines via ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana observability, Terraform-managed infrastructure, OpenTelemetry adoption, Linux systems hardening, and security compliance in a HIPAA-regulated setting. Best suited to an experienced engineer comfortable with deep Kubernetes internals and autonomous architectural decision-making.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 630 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 470–980
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is titled 'Senior Systems Engineer' and involves significant platform/infrastructure ownership (EKS, GitOps, observability, IaC), but the JD explicitly requires writing code (Python, TypeScript, Bash) and building tooling — consistent with 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is the runner-up for the operational/infrastructure flavor of the work.
The experience requirement is stated as '5–8 years'; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the minimum of the range).
ArgoCD is listed as the primary required tool with Flux as an explicitly named alternative ('ArgoCD or Flux') — both captured on one skill entry.
Linkerd and Istio appear under 'Nice to Have' as a service mesh pair; AWS Secrets Manager and External Secrets Operator are similarly listed as Nice to Have alternatives.
Python, TypeScript, and Bash are all listed together in a single required bullet ('Programming and scripting experience with Python, TypeScript, Bash') — emitted as three separate required skills since they are distinct technologies used together, not interchangeable alternatives.
The role is hybrid in Seattle — not fully remote.
HIPAA/SOC 2 compliance experience is required by the JD but names no specific tool or platform, so it is not emitted as a skill per extraction rules.
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