Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clover Health is reinventing health insurance by combining data and human empathy to improve member health. They are seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure to lead the development of cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms, focusing on reliability, security, and developer enablement while managing a small team of engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end across our cloud environments, staying hands-on with IaC, CI/CD, and observability alongside the team
- Own the SDLC surface area (dev environments, lower envs, release mechanics, monitoring and response) so engineers can ship in minutes rather than days
- Build the substrate that lets AI agents observe, reason, and act on business systems with safe defaults, and the rails that let AI-assisted apps from people outside of tech be deployed and supported without becoming operational liabilities
- Participate in security operations alongside our SecOps team on CSPM, threat management, and patch management as the infrastructure-side owner of remediations
- Frame infrastructure decisions in terms of business outcomes (operational efficiency, financial impact, clinical results), and make progress and tradeoffs visible to leadership as a natural byproduct of how you work
- Lead and develop a small, high-impact team, and operate as a peer to our SecOps, Data, IT Systems, and App Engineering leaders as a unifying technical force across the org
Skills
- You have an engineering background with deep, hands-on experience operating production infrastructure across at least two major clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure) and with modern infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
- You have built and operated modern CI/CD systems, dev environments, and observability stacks. What you've shipped matters more than the size of the fleet you've managed
- You've built and operated infrastructure across different company sizes and business contexts. Cross-domain breadth is a real asset; experience in regulated domains (healthcare, financial services) is helpful but not required
- You hold a strong, well-reasoned point of view on platform philosophy, and can defend when to standardize, when to give teams room, and how to make the safe path the easy path
- You have shipped AI-native operational systems. That might be AI agents that triage alerts, draft RCAs, manage cost, or execute runbooks, or frameworks that let non-traditional contributors (junior engineers, analysts, AI agents, vibe-coders) ship safely
- You're action-oriented on governance and security participation. You document what matters, automate what you can, and don't let process become a bottleneck
- You have built and developed teams. You think about composition intentionally, hire for gaps, and invest in people's growth
- You're a strong communicator: clear, direct, and concise with both technical and non-technical audiences
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and equity opportunities
- Performance-based bonus program
- 401k matching
- Regular compensation reviews to recognize and reward exceptional contributions
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- No-Meeting Fridays
- Monthly company holidays
- Access to mental health resources
- Generous flexible time-off policy
- Remote-first culture that supports collaboration and flexibility
- Learning programs
- Mentorship
- Professional development funding
- Regular performance feedback and reviews
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offering discounted equity opportunities
- Reimbursement for office setup expenses
- Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
- Remote-first culture, enabling collaboration with global teams
- Paid parental leave for all new parents
Company Overview
Clover is a healthcare technology company helping members live their healthiest lives with its Medicare Advantage plans. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://cloverhealth.com.