Founding Infra Engineer

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.