Staff Engineer - Cloud

Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, the Staff Engineer is a hands-on Technical Leadership role who will be heavily involved in the FedRAMP specific and overall Architecture Evolution of Spring Health as part of the Engineering Leadership Team. You will be a champion of technical initiatives such as architecting, building and deploying the FedRAMP Compliant Product for Spring Health and work closely with our Product team to prioritize deliverables. 

As a Staff Engineer, you will define and drive the cloud-native enterprise architecture strategy for Spring Health, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and innovation across a full-stack cloud environment with FedRAMP Compliance (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or similar). This role requires an expert in modern cloud-native architectures, and enterprise system design, capable of balancing performance, resilience, and compliance needs while aligning with business objectives.

The initial focus will be on developing a robust enterprise architecture that meets FedRAMP compliance standards, ensuring scalability and performance across full-stack applications, and cloud services. Long-term, this role will drive continuous modernization, technology adoption, and cloud transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Staff Engineer:

• Define and evolve the enterprise architecture to support cloud-native platforms and Spring Health applications.
• Architect highly scalable, resilient, and efficient cloud solutions using serverless computing, Kubernetes, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Identify dependencies on services and third parties, which ones are critical to Spring Health services, and develop designs to upgrade or replace those so that they can meet FedRAMP compliance standards.
• Optimize cloud-native workloads for cost-effectiveness, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies while ensuring seamless integration with government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government).
• Guide teams in selecting best-fit technologies, frameworks, and platforms that will meet FedRAMP compliance standards.

Compliance & Secure Cloud Solutioning:

• Architect solutions that inherently meet compliance requirements (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53) without compromising performance and innovation.
• Incorporate best-practice security and governance models into cloud architecture, including identity and access management (IAM), data protection, and secure APIs.
• Guide engineering teams on implementing secure and compliant cloud-native services, ensuring security is embedded in architectural design rather than an afterthought.
• Enable automation of compliance processes to support efficient governance, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring.

Technology Leadership & Innovation:

• Serve as a strategic advisor to executives and cross-functional teams, translating business goals into scalable, future-proof technical solutions.
• Drive cloud modernization efforts, ensuring adoption of cutting-edge AI/ML, automation, and intelligent systems.
• Lead and Execute Prototyping / Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies for enterprise adoption.
• Optimize DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) strategies, ensuring automation, scalability, security and compliance are built into architectural decisions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance:

• Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, security and compliance teams to drive cohesive and aligned architectural strategies.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure governance models align with regulatory requirements while allowing for scalable innovation.
• Work with federal agencies, 3PAOs, and stakeholders to ensure smooth alignment with compliance expectations.

Mentorship & Continuous Improvement:

• Mentor engineering and architecture teams, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and security-aware solutioning.
• Advocate for best practices in cloud computing, and enterprise-scale system design.
• Continuously evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance architecture efficiency and operational agility.

Qualifications & Expertise:

• A minimum of 10+ years of overall experience , including at least 5+ years in enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and full-stack system design.
• Proven expertise in architecting and scaling cloud applications.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native application design, microservices, serverless, and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Extensive experience in AWS (AWS GovCloud preferred), Azure, or multi-cloud strategies.
• Strong background in performance optimization, distributed systems, and high-availability architectures.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and security frameworks—not as a security architect, but as an expert in integrating compliance into scalable designs.
• Experience leading large-scale technology transformations, cloud migrations, and enterprise system modernizations.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-aligned strategies.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, executives, and federal agencies.

Why This Role?

This is a high-impact leadership role that allows for strategic influence over enterprise architecture and cloud transformation efforts. It provides an opportunity to design next-generation cloud solutions, ensuring performance, scalability, and compliance while driving business innovation and growth.

The target base salary range for this position is $200,800 - $245,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay. 

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Note: We have even more benefits than listed here and below, your recruiter will provide more in-depth information as you continue in the interview process. Benefits are subject to individual plan requirements and eligibility criteria.

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
• We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.
• At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Noom, a weight management program—based in psychology, that’s tailored to your unique needs and goals. 
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
• Access to Wellhub,  which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription
• Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.