# Infrastructure Engineer (Backend)

**Company:** [Counsel Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/counsel-health)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, SQS, Temporal, IAM
**Posted:** 2026-03-27

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**

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