Lead Infrastructure Engineer

The RoleWe're seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to become our first dedicated platform hire and the owner of the infrastructure the Onos platform runs on. Onos is in production with the nation's largest health plans, which comes with contractual uptime SLAs, disaster recovery commitments, and a security bar (SOC 2, HIPAA) our clients audit. Until now this has been carried collectively by our product engineers and founders — you'll own it end to end. We build heavily with AI coding agents, so much of your leverage will come from specifying work well and directing agents rather than typing every line yourself; prior tech lead or engineering management experience translates directly. As an early team member, you'll set the patterns every future platform engineer at Onos inherits. This role is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, where you'll be expected to work at our office in person 3 times a week.What You'll Be Doing At OnosOwn our availability, disaster recovery, and backup commitments to enterprise clients — multi-region failover architecture and the recovery exercises that prove itStand up production monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and our on-call rotation and incident response processOwn the technical controls behind SOC 2 and HIPAA: cloud security posture (AWS org guardrails, IAM least-privilege, KMS/encryption), vulnerability remediation, and continuous audit evidence through Vanta, with a path toward HITRUSTBuild the CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/IaC foundations, preview environments, and test infrastructure the whole team ships onBuild the guardrails that let AI coding agents ship safely — policy-as-code, deploy verification, and agent-operated operations toolingSet the strategy and operating rhythm for platform work: priorities, status, and what we deliberately deferTechnical Challenges At OnosArchitect AI SRE agents to ensure up-to-date compliance and reliability, enabling engineers to work more effectively and strategicallyRight-size enterprise-grade reliability: SLOs and alerting you can trust without drowning a small team in pager noiseTurn compliance into continuously verified infrastructure — security controls and audit evidence as codeScale a CI/CD and environments platform where AI agents, not just humans, are the primary usersSupport multi-region disaster recovery with defined RTO/RPO targets and immutable, restore-tested backups for a multi-tenant healthcare platformTech StackAt Onos, we work with a modern tech stack where we continuously evaluate and adopt cutting-edge technologies as we scale.Infrastructure/Systems: AWS (ECS, Bedrock, Glue, etc.), Langfuse, TerraformLanguages/Frameworks: Backend: Python, Django, Celery / Celery Beat, django-ninja, django-tenantsFrontend: NextJS, Typescript, Tanstack Query, Shadcn UI, Zod, NuqsDatabase/Storage: PostgreSQL (AWS RDS), S3, ClickhouseDevelopment Tools: Github, Linear, Claude Code, Codex, CoderabbitAIWhat We're Looking ForDeep AWS experience — you've owned production cloud infrastructure end to end (IAM, networking, KMS, containers, managed databases)Strong Terraform/IaC and CI/CD expertise; you treat pipelines and environments as products with usersTaken a company through at least one SOC 2 (or HITRUST/ISO 27001) audit cycle with your hands on the technical controlsSRE fundamentals — SLOs, incident management, DR design — with the judgment to right-size reliability for a startup with enterprise contractsPrior experience leading engineering teams as a tech lead or engineering manager — you can break down ambiguous goals, delegate (to humans or AI agents), and communicate crisply with non-technical stakeholdersCustomer obsessed and motivated to make an impact in the healthcare spaceBonus Points If You HaveSignificant experience in healthcare or another regulated industry, with HIPAA fluencyPolicy-as-code (OPA, Kyverno) or compliance automation (e.g., Vanta, Drata) experienceBeen the first infrastructure hire, or helped found or lead a platform teamBuilt internal tooling or infrastructure for LLM/agent systemsBenefits And PerksHybrid arrangement: 3 days/week at San Francisco office (Financial District)Unlimited vacation policyPaid parental leaveMedical, dental, and vision insurancePre-tax commuter benefits401(k)Significant equity as an early employeeDirect mentorship from experienced foundersGround-floor opportunity to help build a team and cultureRegular team events and offsitesCompany-provided equipment and home office setupWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.