Infrastructure Engineer (Backend)
Builds and maintains cloud infrastructure with Terraform, owns CI/CD pipelines, writes backend services, and improves developer tooling in AWS/GCP for AI-driven healthcare platform. Requires 3-5 years experience in backend/infra hybrid roles.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Contribute to Our Infrastructure-as-Code: develop and maintain our cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- Build & Improve CI/CD: Own our build, test, and deployment pipelines end-to-end.
- Backend Engineering: Write production backend services and contribute to core server-side systems.
- Build Core Archetypes: Write production grade archetypes for new deployments, jobs, consumers, and workers.
- Developer Experience: Improve local dev workflows, reduce build times, eliminate flaky infrastructure, and build internal tooling.
- Security & Compliance: Harden infrastructure posture — secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation, and audit logging in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
Who You Are
- A Bridge Builder: Comfortable in an IDE writing application code and in a terminal managing cloud infrastructure.
- An Automation Leader: Automate repetitive tasks.
- Systems Thinker: Understand request flows from browser to database.
- Pragmatic & Shipping-Oriented: Pick right tool and ship working solutions.
- A Strong Communicator: Explain infrastructure decisions and translate product requirements.
What You'll Bring
- 3-5 years of professional experience in backend engineering, infrastructure engineering, or hybrid.
- Strong proficiency in at least one strongly-typed or compiled language (Go, Rust, Java, Typed Python, TypeScript, etc.).
- Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure cloud services.
- Familiarity with containerized environments and Docker.
Bonus Points For
- Hands-on experience writing and maintaining Terraform (or equivalent IaC tooling).
- Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
- Kubernetes experience.
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js.
- Experience working in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.).
Our Tech Stack
- Languages: TypeScript, Node.js
- Infrastructure: SQS, Temporal, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, time-series and vector storage with GCP
Skills
Terraform, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, SQS, Temporal, IAM
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