Director, Platform Engineering & Tooling

Who Are We?

Prolaio believes that continuous learning and collaboration can make a significant difference in how heart care is administered. We are creating smarter ways to address heart disease and heart risks by uniting patients, care teams, and researchers on a secure, technology-enabled platform that drives clinical innovation and offers a path towards better patient outcomes.

This is precision cardiology, and we know it’s within reach.

What Will You Do?

The Overview

The Sr. Director, Platform Engineering & Tooling will be the senior leader responsible for shaping and scaling Prolaio’s cloud-native platform engineering capabilities that underpin its clinical, quality, research, and AI-driven data ecosystem. This role owns the foundational tooling (including observability, cloud infrastructure tooling, platform access, data access controls, and data lifecycle management), platform services, and shared engineering capabilities required to support secure, scalable, and governed access to data and platform resources across clinical trials, QMS workflows, clinical research, data science, analytics, and data services in a regulated healthcare environment. This role will ensure that core platform features and services are built with security, privacy, compliance, and auditability by design, and other regulatory expectations relevant to Prolaio’s clinical and patient-data environment. This role will partner with colleagues in Product, Engineering, Quality, Clinical Operations to embed security, privacy, HIPAA and regulatory expectations into every layer of the platform. This is a role for a self-starter and experienced engineering leader who brings both organizational leadership and strong technical credibility in designing, building, and continuously enhancing healthcare data platforms and AI-enabled platform features in a growth-stage company

The Specifics

• Lead Prolaio’s platform engineering strategy and roadmap to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud and data platform capabilities aligned to business, clinical, and AI priorities.
• Build and evolve the core platform tooling needed for observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, reliability, and cloud operations across GCP-based environments.
• Own foundational platform capabilities for platform access, data access, identity-aware controls, service authorization, and secure environment provisioning.
• Drive platform services and automation for data lifecycle management, including ingestion, validation, publishing, retention, archival, lineage, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Partner with the Director of Data Engineering to strengthen Prolaio’s data architecture, API’s, data pipelines, and warehouse capabilities as part of the broader enterprise data platform.