Your Impact on Our Mission

At Zocdoc, we're on a mission to give power to the patient -- and that starts with enabling our engineering teams to build and ship software safely, efficiently, and with confidence.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and improve the foundational systems, tooling, and paved roads that create leverage across our engineering organization; accelerating delivery while improving reliability, consistency, and developer experience.

This role sits within the Infrastructure organization. You will collaborate across the business to turn platform strategy into practical, adoptable solutions. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership with meaningful input into platform direction, with the goal of reducing friction across the development lifecycle and enabling teams to focus on improving healthcare access rather than infrastructure scaffolding.

You will play a key role in how developers at Zocdoc build, test, and deploy software. You'll do this through agentic AI, self-service capabilities, composable platform patterns, and opinionated but flexible paved roads. Your work will abstract operational complexity, improve testability and safety, and streamline the developer journey across frontend, backend, and mobile surfaces.

You'll Enjoy This Role If You...

• Enjoy building platforms that enable productivity, consistency, and autonomy
• Are motivated by making other engineers more effective, not just shipping your own features
• Like designing cohesive developer experiences that teams actually want to adopt
• Care deeply about developer empathy, usability, and reducing cognitive load
• Prefer solving real problems through thoughtful design, iteration, and collaboration
• Are comfortable influencing peers and adjacent teams through clear communication and working code
• Find satisfaction in building systems that scale predictably and help other engineers succeed
• Enjoy learning and teaching others about leveraging AI-based technologies to achieve real-world results

Your Day to Day

• Design and build platform services and solutions that are secure, scalable, and intentionally easy to use -- including CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and shared infrastructure patterns
• Contribute to the technical direction of Zocdoc's internal developer platform, including paved roads, tooling, and shared workflows
• Collaborate across teams to understand real developer pain points, validate platform bets, and drive adoption of platform capabilities
• Own and deliver high-impact platform investments end to end -- from problem framing through implementation and rollout
• Improve measurable developer outcomes such as build times, deployment safety, feedback loops, and operational simplicity
• Champion platform-as-product thinking by treating internal engineers as users and continuously refining the developer experience based on their feedback
• Advance platform capabilities in AI-assisted development, helping shape how engineers use AI in their daily workflows with the right guardrails for safety, quality, and testability
• Mentor engineers and technologies across the business and raise the bar for technical design and code quality
• Ensure platform patterns align with security, compliance, and reliability expectations without becoming a bottleneck

You'll Be Successful in This Role If You...

• Have 7+ years of experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, productivity tooling, or CI/CD systems used by multiple teams
• Have designed and operated distributed systems in AWS or similar cloud environments
• Bring strong judgment around platform abstractions and APIs; knowing when to standardize and when to stay flexible
• Can take ambiguous problems, break them into deliverable pieces, and drive them to measurable outcomes
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly and build consensus with peers and stakeholders
• Treat adoption as a first-class engineering problem, not an afterthought
• Are motivated by enabling other engineers to build reliable, scalable, and secure systems with confidence
• Value learning, curiosity, and operational excellence, and model those qualities for the team

Strategy vs. Execution Split

• ~20% Strategy and Influence (contributing to platform direction, participating in cross-team alignment, surfacing trade-offs and priorities)
• ~80% Hands-On Technical Leadership (designing and building platform capabilities, reviewing architecture and code, partnering with teams on adoption and iteration)

Benefits:

• Flexible work environment for those based in NYC (Role is open to remote)
• Unlimited Vacation
• 100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)
• 401(k) with employer funded match
• Corporate wellness program with Wellhub
• Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service)
• Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging
• Great Place to Work Certified

Zocdoc is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Salary ranges are determined through alignment with market data. Base salary offered is determined by a number of factors including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and skills. Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay and/or equity; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.

NYC Base Salary Range

$210,000-$270,000 USD