Software Engineer: Infrastructure
Infrastructure Engineer owns platform reliability, security, and performance in a HIPAA-compliant environment handling healthcare data. Designs infrastructure with Terraform, improves CI/CD workflows, and ensures resilient systems using PostgreSQL and modern cloud tools.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure health, performance, and reliability across the stack.
- Make architectural decisions and improve how we build and operate.
- Design and evolve infrastructure using Terraform.
- Improve CI/CD, deployments, and developer workflows so teams ship faster.
- Strengthen security across access controls, vulnerability management, and dependencies.
- Identify and eliminate reliability risks before they impact customers.
Requirements
- Experience operating production infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE systems.
- A track record of owning critical systems end-to-end.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL or comparable relational databases in production.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Sound judgment across reliability, performance, and security tradeoffs.
- A bias toward automation and improving developer productivity.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience operating in HIPAA or SOC 2 environments.
- Deep PostgreSQL performance tuning or replication management.
- Building internal tooling that improves developer productivity.
- Improving observability, incident response, or overall security posture.
Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- Modern cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tooling
Compensation
$180,000—$250,000 USD
Skills
Terraform, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, HIPAA, SOC 2, Infrastructure As Code, Cloud Infrastructure
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