Platform Engineer III at Cedar

Job description

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S. Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience. The Role Our Platform Testing team builds the tooling, frameworks, and standards that help every Cedar engineering team test more effectively. We’re hiring an engineer with deep testing expertise to make our large test suite faster and more reliable, shape how we test services as our architecture evolves, and identify where our biggest risks are. You’ll write production-quality code, own well-defined problems independently, and partner with senior engineers in a broader direction. Because Cedar builds healthcare technology, better testing directly improves the experience for patients, providers, and customers. This role is remote across the United States. What you will do: Build tooling and metrics that make test quality visible, including reliability, flakiness, and coupling Establish code-coverage measurement and help teams close gaps in the highest-risk areas Improve service-to-service testing as our architecture becomes more distributed Integrate testing capabilities into CI/CD and developer workflows with Platform engineers Make great testing easier through better frameworks, documentation, and standards Help connect tests to product behavior and feature specifications Own projects end to end, from investigation to adoption, and measure their impact on quality What We Look For 4–7 years in software engineering, or as an SDET with substantial software development responsibilities Proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript Deep knowledge of testing strategies from unit through end-to-end, and hands-on use of frameworks such as pytest, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, or Playwright You’ve implemented CI/CD pipelines, including collecting and reporting on test results You’ve measured test suites through metrics such as coverage, reliability, execution time, or flakiness Ability to work cross-functionally to improve processes, and to bring in the right people when a problem needs broader input Strong written and verbal communication, including turning testing strategy into clear standards and documentation Comfort working independently once a problem is defined, and genuine curiosity about how software fails Nice to Have Service-to-service or contract testing (e.g., Pact, Testcontainers), especially during an architecture migration You’ve built a test framework from scratch Time on a platform, developer productivity, or internal tooling team, ideally within a product engineering organization You’ve built AI-assisted testing tools or tested LLM-powered applications Familiarity with Go or Kotlin, or eagerness to pick up new languages Compensation Range and Benefits Salary Range*: $170,000-$215,000 This role is equity eligible This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package *Subject to location, experience, and education What do we offer to the ideal candidate? A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and r