What this company does
Telepatia is a high-growth tech company building infrastructure for a regulated healthcare environment. The product is scaling fast. The platform needs to keep up. This hire is foundational, not a support function.
Why this role exists
The platform stack needs an owner. One person who designs, builds, maintains, and takes responsibility for how it runs in production across multi-cloud environments. Not a committee. Not a manager. One engineer with deep enough expertise and ownership instinct to make hard calls fast and live with the consequences.
What you will own
The entire shared backend layer: GraphQL gateways, graph databases, API infrastructure, internal SDKs
Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP including networking, scaling, security, and orchestration
Observability, alerting, and incident response systems that work at org scale
Compliance posture across HIPAA, LGPD, SOC2, ISO 27001, not delegated but owned
Pulumi modules, automation tooling, and the ongoing refactor of legacy systems
AI-assisted workflows across incident response, code review, and capacity planning
Migration and improvement of inherited systems, diagnosed accurately, fixed deliberately
What you will actually do day to day
Write production code and infrastructure-as-code, not review it
Debug slow queries, analyze traces, resolve production incidents personally
Make architectural decisions on the shared platform with full accountability
Evaluate and adopt AI tooling into your daily engineering workflow
Operate in high ambiguity with limited process and high expectations for output
What you need
Based in Brazil
Senior hands-on platform or infrastructure engineer, not a manager who used to code
Deep Kubernetes in production, multi-cloud: AWS and GCP both required
Direct experience in regulated environments: HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, or LGPD
Backend engineering depth: you can debug a slow query, read a flame graph, trace a distributed system
A track record of building 0-to-1 platform capabilities, not just maintaining what exists
You use AI tools daily and can articulate exactly how they changed the way you work
You can tell a specific, honest story about a production issue you personally caused and fixed
What gives you an edge
Graph databases in production: Neo4j or Amazon Neptune
Document stores at scale: Firestore or MongoDB
Healthcare data infrastructure: EHR integrations, FHIR APIs, clinical data pipelines
You have technically led other engineers without needing a management title to do it
What will disqualify you
Your last two years are primarily management or director-level with no significant hands-on coding
You describe your work as "managed" or "oversaw" rather than "built," "shipped," or "architected"
No regulated environment experience on your CV
Not based in Brazil
Recruitment process
CV review
Intro call: role fit, background, expectations
Technical screening with the founding team
Deep-dive interview: production war stories, architectural decisions, live problem-solving
Offer
Compensation
Up to $200,000 USD / year. Full-time, remote from Brazil.