Staff Software Engineer – RnD Enablement

Hinge Health

. Build platforms, services, and engineering practices that enable Hinge Health teams to ship software safely and quickly .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeBengaluru • IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build platforms, services, and engineering practices that enable Hinge Health teams to ship software safely and quickly
Own a multi-quarter technical roadmap for Service Enablement domains based on internal engineering needs
Lead architecture and design for highly available, secure, and maintainable platforms and services across pod boundaries
Build and maintain paved roads for service development, deployment, observability, reliability, and operational ownership
Improve developer productivity through automation, reusable frameworks, self-service workflows, and documentation
Set standards for SLOs, alerting, incident response, capacity management, service ownership, and production readiness
Support reliable and cost-efficient AI/ML workloads, including inference systems where appropriate
De-risk ambiguous problems through prototypes, spikes, and experiments with measurable results
Write and lead RFCs, design reviews, and technical decision records
Participate in production operations and eliminate recurring failure modes with systemic fixes
Deliver large initiatives from strategy through production adoption and measure platform adoption, productivity, reliability, cost, or reduced operational toil
Mentor engineers, coach senior engineers toward broader technical leadership, assist with hiring, and raise engineering standards
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, Data, ML, and Infrastructure teams
Work with colleagues in San Francisco, including late-evening IST meetings

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
10+ years of professional software development, or equivalent depth building and operating production systems
4+ years with at least one modern programming language such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or Python
4+ years across the full software development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations
4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads such as AWS, Kubernetes, or EKS
Experience with software design and distributed systems fundamentals, including reliability, scalability, performance, failure modes, and API or platform contracts
Experience operating production systems, including observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement
Experience treating internal platforms and developer experience as products, with attention to usability, adoption, and measurable outcomes
Experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude
Applicants should be open to meetings in the late evening following India Standard Time, 8:30 pm–10:30 pm IST
Willingness to work from the Bengaluru office 3 days a week for the full 8 hours of a typical business day
Preferred: experience building internal developer platforms, service templates, golden paths, CI/CD systems, or self-service infrastructure
Preferred: experience with platform security, identity and access management, compliance controls, or secure-by-default engineering
Preferred: experience supporting AI/ML teams with inference infrastructure, model serving platforms, evaluation workflows, or cost and performance optimization
Preferred: experience defining and maintaining SLOs and SLAs, error budgets, service-health metrics, alerting, on-call practices, incident response, and root-cause analysis
Preferred: experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, service networking, or large-scale data and messaging infrastructure
Preferred: experience defining platform metrics such as adoption, deployment lead time, change failure rate, availability, developer satisfaction, or operational toil
Preferred: experience mentoring senior engineers or acting as technical lead for a platform migration, modernization effort, or organization-wide launch
Preferred: experience working in healthcare, privacy-sensitive, regulated, or otherwise high-trust environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Group Medical Coverage (GMC)
Group Term Life Insurance (GTL)
Group Personal Accident Insurance (GPA)
Lifestyle stipend supporting overall well-being
Learning and development opportunities
Discounted company stock through an ESPP with easy payroll deductions
Hybrid work model with office attendance 3 days per week