Principal Application Infrastructure Engineer

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Nov 2026

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Imagine being at the forefront of medical innovation, where your infrastructure work directly enables life-saving technology. Medtronic is looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build and run the cloud infrastructure behind the Affera Digital Platform, which is transforming cardiac care.
This can be based out of our Newton, MA or Mounds View, MN office with a minimum of 4 days onsite.

In this role, you'll help set the technical direction for the cloud infrastructure that powers the Affera Digital Platform, and keep it running smoothly for the people who depend on it. The platform supports mapper training, clinical management, quality investigation workflows, and R&D. It runs on AWS across multiple regions, orchestrates containerized workloads, serves a modern web frontend, manages a fleet of GPU instances for remote 3D visualization, and handles data ingestion pipelines. You'll ensure the platform is secure, reliable, and compliant with healthcare requirements including comprehensive audit trails.

Primary Responsibilities

Your time will be split roughly evenly between two areas. 

• On the reliability side, you'll be a US-based point of contact for the platform: investigating issues as they come up, improving monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, and turning recurring problems into lasting fixes. 

• On the infrastructure and developer experience side, you'll evolve our Terraform-based AWS infrastructure along with the CI/CD pipelines, environments, and tooling our engineers use every day, making it faster and safer to ship as more of our development is done alongside AI agents.

• You'll work closely with backend, frontend, and DevOps engineers across the US and Europe, partner with Medtronic security and cloud teams on reviews and compliance, and contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, cost, and security.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR PhD with 3 years relevant experience

• Terraform at scale:  modular design, state management, multi-environment and multi-region deployments

• AWS (ex: ECS/Fargate, EC2 and Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALB)

• Observability and troubleshooting experience (ex: CloudWatch or similar, alerting, dashboards, root cause analysis)

• CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar), Docker/ECR, and developer environment tooling

• Experience with cloud security and working through security reviews  (ex: VPC networking, IAM, KMS encryption, WAF)

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare or regulated-industry compliance (HIPAA, FDA)

• Comfortable reading and writing Python

• GPU EC2 workloads, Packer AMI builds, or remote visualization (e.g. Amazon DCV)

• AWS Batch or data pipeline infrastructure

• FastAPI, Celery, or PostgreSQL

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For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$168,000.00 - $252,000.00

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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