Senior DevOps Engineer at Circadia Health
El Segundo, CA
$170,000–$220,000
Aug 12, 2026
El Segundo, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a founding infrastructure/platform engineering role at a healthcare AI company, responsible for owning the full cloud substrate that ingests continuous telemetry from tens of thousands of medical devices into AWS. The engineer will design and operate cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, security controls, and cost management — with HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance built into the infrastructure layer. It suits a senior platform or systems engineer who has scaled production cloud systems and is comfortable as a sole owner of a critical, high-volume data pipeline.
Senior level · 6+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 180 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 140–280
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752).
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Why we read it this way (10)
The job title is not stated in the posting — this appears to be a first/sole infrastructure or platform engineer hire, based on the 'first engineer whose full attention is on it' framing.
Infrastructure as Code is required but no specific tool is named; Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation are listed as alternatives since any would satisfy the requirement.
Containerization and orchestration are required but no specific tool is named; Docker and Kubernetes are the canonical alternatives.
Observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) is required but no specific tooling (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) is named in the posting.
IAM, secrets management, encryption, network boundaries, and audit logging are all called out as required ownership areas; IAM is the named technology anchor.
Snowflake is mentioned in the cost-management context ('Compute, Snowflake, and data transfer spend') — it appears to be part of the existing stack rather than a hard gate, so it is marked preferred.
HIPAA, SOC 2, and IoT/high-volume telemetry ingestion are listed under Preferred Qualifications.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but a significant portion of the work is operating and securing existing infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244). The code-building framing ('cloud architecture design', 'CI/CD for the whole engineering org', 'infrastructure-as-code') tips the classification to 15-1252.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The posting does not specify remote eligibility; the company is headquartered in El Segundo, CA, and no remote option is mentioned.
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