Senior Software Engineer - DevSecOps

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Senior Software Engineer, DevSecOps

Location: Remote (United States)
Company Stage: Profitable, High-Growth Startup (Healthcare / Data Infrastructure)
Office Type: Remote (with occasional in-person team meetings)
Salary: $150,000 - $190,000 + Bonus
Company Description
This profitable, employee-owned startup is building the data infrastructure powering some of the most sophisticated healthcare systems in the world. Their platform enables large enterprises to streamline procurement, manage complex data systems, and improve operational efficiency. With strong product-market fit and continued growth, the company is scaling while maintaining a focus on reliability, security, and real-world impact.
What You Will Do

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, secure, and reliable deployment workflows
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in build, test, and deployment processes
• Design and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code across AWS environments
• Ensure system reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning
• Own vulnerability management, including scanning, triaging, and remediation workflows
• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure, identity, and application layers
• Lead technical efforts related to SOC 2 compliance, including audits and security assessments
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams on security and infrastructure initiatives
• Mentor engineers on DevOps, security, and operational best practices

Ideal Background

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, security engineering, or backend infrastructure roles
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native architectures
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.)
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals including vulnerability management, IAM, and secure SDLC
• Experience operating and scaling production systems with a focus on reliability and performance
• Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred

• Experience supporting SOC 2 audits or similar compliance frameworks
• Experience responding to enterprise customer security assessments
• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning tools (Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, etc.)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS)
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Background in healthcare, regulated environments, or enterprise SaaS systems

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $150K - $190K + 10-20% performance bonus
• Equity participation in an employee-owned company
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Flexible PTO
• Remote-first environment with high autonomy and ownership
• Opportunity to own and scale security and infrastructure for mission-critical healthcare systems

This is a high-impact role for engineers who want to operate at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and developer experience, owning the systems that enable teams to ship quickly and securely at scale.

Salary Range: $150,000-$190,000 base.