Senior Back-End Engineer: Infrastructure

About the role

Our client is a Series A startup focused on transforming health insurance with a “Dynamic Copay” model that provides members transparent, upfront pricing for medical care. Since 2020 the team has built the only independent platform for Dynamic Copay solutions, serving clients from local health plans to the nation’s largest insurers.

The Senior Backend Engineer – Infrastructure joins the Infrastructure team, reporting to the Principal DevOps Engineer. The role centers on platform engineering and DevOps functions (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, operational tooling). As the second engineer on the team, you will provide cross‑coverage, shared on‑call support, and apply backend engineering expertise to improve production services and infrastructure.

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 using Terraform and 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 of production systems.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.
• Support compliance and security requirements, including HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a significant infrastructure or DevOps focus.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience operating and scaling both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and monitoring tools.
• Solid backend engineering fundamentals and experience maintaining production services.

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in Go and Python.
• Experience with disaster recovery and runbook creation.
• Knowledge of healthcare infrastructure compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST).
• Familiarity with incident management tooling.
• Startup experience.

Pay

The target base salary range is $150,000 – $225,000. The role includes a competitive total rewards package with equity and benefits. Individual pay varies based on experience, skills, location, internal pay equity, and other factors.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO with a mandatory minimum of 12 days.
• Computer and home office stipend.
• 401(k) plan with matching.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Autonomy and significant opportunities for career growth.
• Occasional travel.
• Fully remote role.