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Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps

Honor is a home care company that combines technology and a network of caregivers to provide in-home care services for older adults, having acquired Home Instead to become the world's largest senior care network.

Honor

Employee count: 1001-5000

Salary: 201k-235k USD

United States only

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Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually.

Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms.

Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals.

We are looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.

What are we looking for in a candidate:

  • You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
  • At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
  • Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
  • Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups.
  • Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
  • Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
  • Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
  • Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
  • Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
  • Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value.
  • Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
  • Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
  • Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
  • A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.

Some, or all, of these are true:

  • You have experience working with an RPC architecture
  • You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
  • You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns

Our range reflects the hiring range for this position. We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company. Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training.


Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match.We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees. Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option. We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.

Hiring Salary Range
$200,700—$235,000 USD

At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role.

Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.

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Salary: 201k-235k USD

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At the heart of Honor's mission is a profound commitment to revolutionizing the way we care for our aging loved ones. Founded from a personal experience of seeing a family member slow down, the company was built on the belief that everyone deserves to age with dignity and independence in the comfort of their own home. This guiding principle has shaped a culture of compassion, innovation, and excellence. Honor's team is driven by the challenge of solving one of society's most significant issues: ensuring quality care for a growing elderly population. The company fosters an environment where leadership is encouraged at every level, promoting collaboration and a relentless pursuit of better solutions. By challenging the norms of the care industry, Honor is not just providing a service; it's creating a movement to expand the world's capacity to care.

The culture at Honor is one of action and empathy, where technology and human touch converge to create a seamless and supportive care experience. The Honor Care Platform, a sophisticated combination of technology and centralized operations, empowers both clients and their families, as well as the dedicated 'Care Professionals'. This platform is the backbone of a national network of home care agencies, including the world-renowned Home Instead, which Honor acquired to become the largest senior care network globally. This synergy allows for the delivery of over a million hours of personalized care each week. For its employees, Honor cultivates a remote-first work model, trusting its team to make a difference from anywhere in the U.S. The company invests in its people through comprehensive benefits, equity opportunities, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, recognizing that caring for others begins with caring for its own team. It's a place for engineers, innovators, and operations professionals to tackle significant problems that have a tangible, positive impact on millions of lives.

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Wellness program

Access to a wellness program.

Equity

Equity in the company gives HQ employees a stake in our success.

Disability Insurance

Short Term and Long Term Disability insurance providing 60% of salary.

Life Insurance

Basic Life Insurance and options for Voluntary Life Insurance for employees & families.

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