Infrastructure Engineer (Backend)

Counsel Health • New York, NY

13d • Remote

About The Position

At Counsel Health, we've built a product that patients and physicians love on a fast-moving stack. As we scale, the surface area between "application code" and "infrastructure" is growing — and we need someone who lives at that intersection.
We are looking for a Backend Infrastructure Engineer who is equal parts software engineer and infrastructure engineer. You won't be sitting in a silo writing Terraform all day, and you won't be shipping product features in React. You'll operate on the critical layer in between: the CI/CD pipelines, the IaC that provisions our AWS environment, the backend services that glue our systems together, and the developer tooling that keeps a fast-growing engineering team productive.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of professional experience in backend engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a hybrid of both.
• Strong proficiency in at least one strongly-typed or compiled language (Go, Rust, Java, Typed Python, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure cloud services.
• Familiarity with containerized environments and Docker.
• A Bridge Builder: You're equally comfortable in an IDE writing application code and in a terminal managing cloud infrastructure. You don't see "backend" and "infra" as separate disciplines.
• An Automation Leader: If you do something manually twice, you're already writing the script to automate it the third time.
• Systems Thinker: You understand how a request flows from a user's browser through a load balancer, into a container, hits a database, and comes back — and you can debug any layer of that stack.
• Pragmatic & Shipping-Oriented: You pick the right tool for the job, not the trendy one. You'd rather ship a working solution today than architect a perfect one next quarter.
• A Strong Communicator: You can explain infrastructure decisions to product engineers and translate product requirements into infrastructure changes.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience writing and maintaining Terraform (or equivalent IaC tooling).
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience working in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.) -- strong plus!

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Our Infrastructure-as-Code: develop and maintain our cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build & Improve CI/CD: Own our build, test, and deployment pipelines end-to-end. Your goal is to make deploying to production boring — fast, reliable, and automatic.
• Backend Engineering: Write production backend services and contribute to core server-side systems. You're comfortable writing application code, not just orchestrating it.
• Build Core Archetypes: Write production grade archetypes for new deployments, jobs, consumers, and workers. You’re comfortable building out an abstract base stream consumer or cron executor for widespread use.
• Developer Experience: Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster. Improve local dev workflows, reduce build times, eliminate flaky infrastructure, and build internal tooling that the team actually wants to use.
• Security & Compliance: Work closely with our security and compliance team to harden our infrastructure posture — secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation, and audit logging in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

Benefits

• Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs
• Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup
• Compensation: Competitive salary + equity
• Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed