ABOUT THIS POSITION

We are looking to add serious Management talent to our Application Engineering team. The Director, Cloud Engineering + DevOps will be responsible for leading Waystar’s Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams. These teams design, engineer, and manage Waystar’s cloud ecosystems, Kubernetes clusters, and application environments.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead the architecture and engineering of Waystar’s cloud platforms

• Ensure we launch our GenAi products on time

• Design scalable cloud solutions to support business initiatives

• Drive maturity in our FinOps and SecOps programs

• Design and build Waystar’s go-forward K8s platform

• Standardize K8s capabilities and drive adoption across application engineering teams

• Build a world-class team of people to support Waystar’s technical initiatives

• Coach team members, lead strategic initiatives, and build great relationships with internal customers

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Have extensive DevOps experience and a deep software development background

• Possess deep cloud expertise and strong familiarity with VMware/datacenter management

• This person must be a technology and organizational change agent. We need to transform how we operate. We do not need to increment how we operate.

• This person must be able to create a vision for the Platform that they are providing to the rest of the organization.

• They must be adept at managing managers. They understand how to set and manage organizational objectives through a team of leaders.

• They know how to grow a manager’s capabilities to hold team members accountable and grow their skillsets.

• They are ambitious and relentlessly curious. They must have a desire and ability to grow with our organization.

• They must be experts at planning and leading large initiatives and must be able to translate business priorities from the executive team into action plans with clear accountability.

• Possess 10+ years of directly relevant experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and/or DevOps.

• Possess a minimum of 5+ years of managerial experience, ideally as a director, but possibly as an experienced manager from a larger organization.

ABOUT WAYSTAR

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud-based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic & fun.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit waystar.com or follow @Waystar (https://twitter.com/Waystar) on Twitter.

WAYSTAR PERKS

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)

• Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)

• We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays

• Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)

• Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access

• Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support

• 401(K) program with company match

• Pet insurance

• Employee resource groups

Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Job Category: Technology/Engineering

Job Type: Full time

Req ID: R2495