Role description
LatentAbout Latent
Latent is the enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform, powered by a clinical agentic engine, that enables health systems to grow their pharmacy operations and serve more patients. One engine works across the pharmacy journey to identify patients who qualify for care, improve medication access, capture eligible prescriptions and support patients throughout treatment. Latent’s platform enables more than 60 leading health systems that collectively serve an estimated 70 million people. Founded by Sriram “Sri” Somasundaram and Rishabh Jain, Latent has raised $80 million from Transformation Capital, Spark Capital, Conviction, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and others.
The Role
You are the infrastructure expert who enables our rapid product development and guarantees 99.9%+ stability and performance of our clinical AI platform for major health systems. Your focus on operational excellence is directly tied to a patient's access to life-saving treatment.
What You'll Do
As our SRE, you will own the entire production environment and improve the development experience:
Infrastructure Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain the production environment, having previously handled 500+ machine deployments.
Kubernetes Mastery: Own our containerized infrastructure, leveraging deep expertise in Kubernetes and Helm to manage deployment, scaling, and operational health.
CI/CD & Deployment Optimization: Optimize and streamline both the TypeScript and Python/ML deployment pipelines to support high-velocity feature release while maintaining the highest reliability.
DevX Support: Support Developer Experience (DevX) work to streamline developer workflows, enhance tool proficiency, and improve CI/CD systems.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage and maintain infrastructure definitions using Terraform.
What We're Looking For
You have the intensity and technical mastery to own mission-critical infrastructure. You hold yourself and others to high standards and thrive in a high-energy, in-office culture where everyone is in it to win it.
Tool Proficiency: You are highly proficient with your tools—you speak command line fluently and have mastered keyboard shortcuts.
Ownership: You thrive on owning complex systems and have a proven track record of scaling mission-critical deployments.
Automation Drive: You love automating things, always finding new ways to increase your own leverage, and defining standards for operational excellence.
Problem Solver: You won't wait for someone else to solve a problem that you're in a position to solve; you are willing to jump into whatever needs to get done.
Technical Qualifications & Environment
IaC & Orchestration: Deep, demonstrable experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
Scaling Systems: Proven ability to architect and maintain complex, distributed systems with high-availability requirements.
Deployment Experience: Hands-on experience optimizing deployment pipelines for both application code (TypeScript) and machine learning models (Python/ML). Also PostgreSQL, Redis, Kakfa.
Core Team Member: Excitement about working five days per week in our San Francisco office.
Nice to Have
Interest in healthcare, pharmacy, or health technology
Uses AI tools in your workflow and is always looking for ways to move faster with them
Why Join Latent
Backed by top-tier investors including General Catalyst, Conviction, and Y Combinator
Work alongside a high-caliber team building products our healthcare partners love
Work on mission-critical problems at the intersection of AI and healthcare
Real ownership and visibility
High-impact role on a small, fast-growing team
Benefits
Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
Flexible PTO policy
Paid parental leave
Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot