Director of Engineering – Foundations

Atria Institute

. Own the health, technical direction, and output of the Foundations group covering Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • New York • United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams and managing complex, cross-functional initiatives, with a strong focus on platform reliability, data architecture, and security compliance. Proficient in driving technical strategy and architectural direction while fostering a culture of feedback and continuous improvement.

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10+ Years Software Engineering ExperienceLeadership Experience Managing Engineering TeamsTypeScript/Node.js ProficiencyGoogle Cloud Platform and Terraform FamiliarityExperience in Digital Health or Regulated Technology Sectors

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Hard Skills

Systems DesignPlatform ReliabilityData ArchitectureSecurity ComplianceCost OptimizationAI-Assisted Engineering WorkflowsIntegration PatternsData PipelinesIncident Response GovernanceCapacity Planning

Soft Skills

Strong Systems ThinkingAbility to Own Outcomes End-to-EndCulture of Feedback DevelopmentDecision-Making with Incomplete InformationCross-Functional Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

DatadogSentryMixpanelSnowflakeDbtElectronic Health Record PlatformsWearable API Ecosystems

Industry Keywords

HIPAAPHISOC 2HITRUSTDigital Health

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptMySQLNode.jsPostgresTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the health, technical direction, and output of the Foundations group covering Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering
Maintain end-to-end accountability for complex, multi-team initiatives including EMR integrations, MySQL-to-Postgres migration, background jobs, feature flags, and data platform enhancements
Own reliability, security, and operational health of platform, data, and cloud infrastructure
Manage SLOs, capacity planning, on-call rotation, alerting, and incident response governance
Drive initiatives from definition through delivery and maintain accountability for outcomes
Serve as the primary escalation and request path into Foundations
Partner with Product Engineering and Data & Analytics leadership on scalable infrastructure solutions
Work cross-functionally with product, data, clinical, security, and executive stakeholders
Own architectural direction across integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
Act as senior technical escalation point and lead architecture and design reviews
Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows, tooling, patterns, and guardrails
Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, code conventions, and documentation practices
Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development across Foundations
Champion observability and telemetry standards using Datadog, Sentry, and Mixpanel
Drive post-incident reviews, systemic improvements, measurement structures, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience managing engineering teams and Tech Leads/managers
Track record of developing talent and raising team performance over time
Demonstrated track record leading multiple teams across platform, infrastructure, or data domains in production, and driving technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives
Strong systems-design background spanning backend infrastructure, platform reliability, data architecture, security/compliance, and cost optimization
Deep enough to lead architecture reviews and earn the technical respect of senior and staff engineers
Hands-on familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js, Google Cloud Platform and Terraform, and enterprise data warehousing and pipelines (Snowflake, dbt)
Active, fluent use of AI tools in your own workflow, with a clear point of view on responsible engineering-organization adoption
Demonstrated ability to own outcomes end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Strong systems thinking and ability to see how decisions ripple across users, teams, and products
Evidence of developing and supporting a robust culture of feedback, including giving and receiving it
Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and bring teams along
Prior experience in digital health or other regulated technology sectors (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2, HITRUST) is nice-to-have
Direct experience integrating Electronic Health Record platforms, health data infrastructure, or wearable API ecosystems is nice-to-have
Experience establishing AI-assisted engineering workflows at a team or organization level is nice-to-have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent health and wellness benefits, fully covered by Atria, effective date of hire
OneMedical membership for employees & dependents, giving access to 24/7 virtual care
Fertility & family planning
Company-covered preventive health screenings through partner hospitals (calcium score)
Fitness Perks, including Wellhub +
401k contributions and 4% match starting after 6 months
Flexible Time Off
Continuing medical education (CME) and CEU support for professional licensure