Founding Infra Engineer
Founding Infra Engineer owns Kubernetes-based platform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and PostgreSQL optimization for a healthcare financial OS. Requires 5+ years Infra/SRE experience; NYC-based hybrid role.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Accelerate the entire engineering team by building novel tooling, automation, and proven infra best practices that dramatically increase development velocity
- Design and maintain high-leverage CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions) that make shipping safe, fast, and frustration-free
- Own our Kubernetes-based platform end-to-end: architecture, deployment strategy, scaling, and overall reliability
- Build a stable, automated infrastructure layer around our Python services, ingestion pipelines, and compute workloads
- Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and build a clean operational picture of system health
- Establish strong security foundations: secrets management, IAM hardening, system-level policies, and compliance-friendly patterns
- Improve and optimize PostgreSQL performance, monitoring, and operational stability across workloads
- Drive the team’s infrastructure roadmap and ensure our architecture supports rapid onboarding and growth
- Build internal tooling that reduces complexity, eliminates manual ops, and gives engineers “superpowers”
- Collaborate closely with engineering and product to ensure that infra choices enable—not constrain—our product velocity
We’d love to hear from you if…
- You’re energized by Joyful Health’s mission—building tools that help providers take control of their financial health
- You want to shape foundational architecture at an early-stage startup and influence technical decisions for years
- You thrive in ambiguous environments and take pride in owning problems end-to-end
- You value craftsmanship, reliability, and clean abstractions—infra that feels elegant, not duct-taped
- You have 5+ years of experience in Infra//SRE/platform engineering roles
- You have strong experience with:
- Kubernetes (EKS or GKE preferred)
- Python engineering workflows
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)
- PostgreSQL performance, operations, and tuning
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)
- Cloud networking, security, and IAM best practices
The base pay range for this role is $150,000–$275,000 per year.
Skills
Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Python, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Postgres, Terraform, IAM, Infrastructure As Code
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