Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure

Axle Health
Santa Monica
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: []

Senior DevOps & Infrastructure engineer responsible for owning and evolving the cloud infrastructure on AWS, building secure, observable, and scalable systems, driving CI/CD with security controls, implementing HIPAA-compliant infrastructure practices, and coordinating with engineering to ensure production-ready environments in a fast-moving healthcare tech startup.

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Axle Health
Axle Health
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Senior DevOps & Infrastructure engineer responsible for owning and evolving the cloud infrastructure on AWS, building secure, observable, and scalable systems, driving CI/CD with security controls, implementing HIPAA-compliant infrastructure practices, and coordinating with engineering to ensure production-ready environments in a fast-moving healthcare tech startup.
Location: Santa Monica
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and evolve Axle's cloud infrastructure on AWS, driving architectural decisions that balance security, scalability, cost, and developer velocity
  • •Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls including code scanning, secret detection, and dependency vulnerability checks
  • •Lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform or equivalent tools, maintaining clean, audited, and well-documented configurations across all environments
  • •Implement and enforce HIPAA-compliant security practices at the infrastructure layer — including PHI encryption, audit logging, BAA management, and access controls
  • •Manage container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), including image hardening, pod security policies, and least-privilege configurations

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree
  • •7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering, ideally at a growth-stage company
  • •Deep expertise with AWS including: IAM, VPC, ECS or EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and related HIPAA-eligible services
  • •Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, including security auditing of templates and managing state across environments
  • •Proven track record implementing security controls in CI/CD pipelines (code scanning, secret detection, SAST/DAST tooling)
Experience:7+ yearsHealthcareSaaS
Education:Bachelor's
Tech Stack:AWSTerraformDjangoPythonNodeTypescriptGraphQLPostgresSQLDatadogGitGraphite

Eligibility

Visa:US citizen/visa only
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Axle Health
Provides virtual musculoskeletal care and physical therapy solutions that combine telehealth, care coordination, and digital tools to help employers and health plans reduce MSK costs and improve member outcomes.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 2018
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