Senior Back-End Engineer: Infrastructure

Role Description

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and report to our Principal DevOps Engineer. You'll focus on platform engineering and DevOps — CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and operational tooling. You'll serve as the second engineer on the Infrastructure team, providing cross-coverage, including shared on-call rotation. We're looking for someone with strong backend engineering fundamentals and infrastructure expertise — you should be comfortable reading and reasoning about application code and understanding it in the context of deployed production services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation.
• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
• Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terraform Cloud.
• Support database operations across PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Firestore — including provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning.
• Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Support compliance and security requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2).

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering, with significant infrastructure or DevOps experience.
• Strong Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Google Cloud Platform experience.
• Hands-on experience operating and scaling databases (relational and NoSQL).
• Experience with CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability tooling.
• Backend engineering fundamentals — you've built and maintained production services, even if infrastructure is now your primary focus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Go proficiency.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and runbook creation.
• Healthcare infrastructure experience — HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST.
• Incident management tooling (incident.io or similar).
• Python proficiency.
• Start-up experience.

Characteristics

• Reliable and detail-oriented — infrastructure mistakes are expensive, and you take that seriously.
• Mission-driven — motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent.
• Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know.
• Versatile — you're an infrastructure specialist who can context-switch into application-level work when needed.

Internal Tools/Technology

• HCP Terraform / Google Cloud Platform.
• Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical.
• Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom.
• incident.io / Sentry / Cloudsmith.
• Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — we are an AI-forward engineering team.
• macOS / Linux.

Compensation

The target base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $225,000 and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors, including experience, skills, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days).
• Computer + home office stipend.
• 401(k) + matching.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Autonomy and tons of room for career growth.
• Occasional Travel.
• We meet quarterly as a company.

Please note that this is a fully remote opportunity.