The Platform Operations team builds native platform solutions that enable seamless and highly secure platform administration, management, and monitoring. This technical leadership role in the Database Platforms (DP) department will contribute to InterSystems' next generation cloud-native database platform product as well as the InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health and InterSystems Health Connect database platforms.
The Platform Operations team needs an experienced developer or architect who can drive DevSecOps enhancements and maintenance including configuration, security, monitoring, licensing and upgrading for cloud with Kubernetes and traditional on-prem deployments on a range of supported platforms.
This position is in the InterSystems headquarters in Boston, MA.
ResponsibilitiesThis developer will design technical solutions in collaboration with a small team of developers according to product requirements defined by a product manager. They will be responsible for implementing product changes and automated tests when appropriate. All work must follow the team's development workflow including use of source control, code reviews and clear documentation. This developer will be responsible for the quality of their code.
This role requires the candidate to occasionally respond to technical questions about expected product behavior and recommended best practices from support specialists and sales engineers.
This role requires the candidate to collaborate with several other teams including the DP Cloud Core and Kernel development teams, the DP Security Architecture Engineering team, the Managed Services team, and the HealthShare Operations scrum team.
The technology stack includes C/C++, GoLang, YAML, ObjectScript, Docker, Kubernetes and InterSystems IRIS. The platform is supported on Ubuntu containers, Windows, AIX, RHEL, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and Ubuntu. Development teams use Claude Code and VS Code for development tasks. CI/CD pipelines are built with GitLab, but some source code remains in Perforce.
- Interested in transforming our data platform products for cloud-native applications
- Mastery of cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Helm and AWS
- Mastery of network security concepts, protocols and tools
- Familiarity with available AI tooling to optimize development tasks
- 5+ years of experience hardening applications and backend systems
- Demonstrated skill at driving results in a timely fashion
- Able to balance competing pressures and priorities
- Thrives in a self-driven environment with a small team
- 7+ years of experience with python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
- College degree in engineering or computer science
Preferred Qualifications- Professional experience with deploying and managing large-scale distributed systems
- Professional experience with system control theory
- Professional experience with OTel and/or observability platforms
- Professional experience with OAuth 2.0/OIDC
- Professional experience with ObjectScript and C/C++
- Professional experience with bash or similar shell
- Graduate degree with 10+ years of experience
InterSystems is providing a current good faith estimate of the anticipated base salary range for this position depending on a variety of factors including experience, education, skills, and performance.
Other compensation may include a discretionary annual variable target incentive.
The company also provides generous employee benefits including:
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
- 401(k) Profit Sharing Contribution
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Tuition reimbursement
The estimated base compensation range for this role is:
$144,000-$205,000 USD