Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About Our Client

The organization operates in the technology sector, focusing on administering Smart Benefits to connect individuals with essential products and services that promote healthier lives. It collaborates with top-tier health payers and retail chains to provide broad access to benefits such as healthy foods, over-the-counter medications, and critical transportation services. Positioned at the rapid intersection of healthcare, retail, and financial technology, the organization addresses challenges in benefits administration by facilitating efficient, secure, large-scale transactions serving millions of Americans—many of whom are older or within lower-income brackets. The company is currently in a high-growth Series B stage and backed by several leading venture capital investors.

About the Opportunity

The Staff Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for operating, scaling, and maintaining secure distributed systems that process massive volumes of benefit transactions through retail point-of-sale partners. This role ensures the absolute stability, ultra-low latency, and tight security of computing environments critical to the organization's core services. The position contributes by enhancing automated software delivery pipelines and progressive security measures, fostering a safe and efficient operational footprint, and technical coaching to engineering teams to uphold architectural best practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain stable, highly available, and high-performance computing environments during periods of significant transaction workload spikes
• Optimize and advance the software release process to support multiple daily automated CI/CD deployments seamlessly
• Manage and embed automated application security testing tools within development pipelines, providing visibility for continuous risk assessment
• Oversee day-to-day security operations, including automated vulnerability management, secure network architecture, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS)
• Instrument infrastructure telemetry to route security events to central log monitoring and SIEM systems for real-time analysis
• Foster a collaborative, blameless engineering culture that balances development velocity, operational safety, and high code quality

Requirements

• Minimum of seven (7) years of senior or staff-level professional experience in software engineering, application security, cloud/infrastructure security, and infrastructure operations
• Deep, hands-on technical expertise combining modern software development, enterprise security, and systems operations
• Prior experience building, scaling, and managing cloud-native environments handling financial transactions and facing persistent external security threats
• Technical proficiency with shell scripting, Python, Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, and enterprise cloud platforms—with a distinct preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong technical leadership and influence skills to champion secure dev-ops practices across teams without enforcing rigid, authoritarian control
• Commitment to building a diverse, transparent, innovative, and accountable remote engineering culture
• A genuine passion for leveraging technology to address structural health inequities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline; or equivalent practical professional experience
• Valid legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring current or future visa sponsorship
• Capability to work productively within a distributed team, with the willingness to travel occasionally for corporate offsites or business needs
• Satisfactory clearance of a mandatory comprehensive pre-employment background check
• Preferred Qualifications: Prior experience operating within B2B2C SaaS models or highly regulated medical and financial tech environments; Practical familiarity with strict compliance frameworks, including HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST, and PCI-DSS

Pay Range and Compensation Package

The target baseline salary framework is $187,475.00 to $219,625.00 USD annually. Final salary placement within this tier is calibrated dynamically based on the candidate's core infrastructure scaling depth, security engineering capabilities, and distributed systems architecture evaluation. The compensation package includes eligibility for a discretionary performance bonus alongside valuable early-stage corporate equity options.

Benefits & Perks

• Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance with 90% employer-covered premiums across all enrollment tiers
• 100% employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance coverage
• 100% employer-funded basic life insurance policies
• Comprehensive corporate Employee Assistance Program (EAP) availability
• Structured 401(k) retirement savings program
• Discretionary paid time off (PTO) policy alongside recognized paid company holidays
• Fully paid parental leave frameworks to support expanding families
• Flexible daily work schedule arranged within core operational collaboration hours
• Fully remote work flexibility anywhere within the continental United States

Equal Opportunity Statement

The organization is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.