sully-ai - Head of Engineering, Platform

Remote - US - Remote; US - Bay Area$300k - $350k3mo ago

Remote Director NA Head of Engineering Founding Engineer Platform Engineer Coaching Linear

Requirements

• You've built and shipped real platform systems: Distributed architecture, async pipelines, real-time audio/ML workloads, multi-tenant backend. Not just CRUD services. You can go deep on system design and come back with something that actually scales. • You still write code: Player-coach. We evaluate hands-on engineering depth directly. • You've led engineers: made them sharper, not just coordinated their sprints. Small team is fine. Impact is what matters. • You've operated in high-intensity environments: YC-backed, seed-stage, zero-to-one. Speed and judgment over process. You've felt what it means when the platform is down and the whole company is waiting. • Healthcare or high-reliability software experience is a strong signal: You understand what it means to build systems where errors have real consequences. • Ambiguity is your operating system: You convert incomplete direction into clear plans and shipped systems. No hand-holding needed. • Take full ownership of the platform domain: establish yourself as the DRI for architecture, reliability, and delivery decisions • Ensure end-to-end observability and alerting for core platform workflows: note generation pipeline, EHR sync, AI worker health, and real-time audio processing • Define key platform metrics: p50/p99 latency, pipeline completion rate, EHR sync reliability (target ≥98%), error rates by service • Identify and ship at least one high-impact improvement: latency reduction, reliability fix, or architecture simplification • Establish execution cadence: OKRs, on-call standards, and quality benchmarks across the platform stack

Responsibilities

• End-to-end engineering execution: architecture → roadmap → delivery → reliability. • Step-function performance improvements — targeting 50%+ latency cuts across AI workflows. • Observability, metrics, and model-selection systems that hold up at scale. • Engineering rituals that keep teams shipping: standups, backlog ownership (Linear), cross-functional coordination. • Translating product goals into clear plans, timelines, and unblocked teams. • Continuous quality pipelines: accuracy, completeness, reliability of every output. • Engineering bar across the stack: code quality, reviews, on-call, operational rigor.

Benefits

• Estimated Base Salary $300K – $350K • 0.2% – 0.4% • Please Note: We have set up limits for applications at Sully.ai to ensure that candidates are focusing their best efforts into roles they are interested and qualified in. • Please Note • The following limits apply to applications for all our jobs: • Candidates may not apply more than 3 times in any 30 day span for any job. • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 365 days if not presented with an offer. • These rules do not apply if you are sourced. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Please be aware that, unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to sponsor new visas. • For more than 1 year • I am a previous founder • Series C or later • (Everything else = architecture, planning, hiring, team management, cross-team coordination, code reviews, stakeholder communication, process) • 90% coding / 10% everything else • 60% coding / 40% everything else • 20% coding / 80% everything else • 10% coding / 90% everything else • Sully.ai may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.