Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Komodo Health • San Francisco, CA

10d • $153,000 - $210,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Komodo Health is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their Platform team. This role is crucial in building, operating, and continuously improving the company's infrastructure offerings for over 150 client organizations. The team's objective is to achieve business goals by adopting best infrastructure practices and leveraging 100% automation to scale product offerings and reduce costs. The engineer will work with passionate team members across the country to support Komodo's mission of reducing the global burden of disease. The role involves developing a deep understanding of the Platform and its customers, building and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS) based on customer requirements, and solving development and deployment challenges to ensure infrastructure reliability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness. The engineer will also participate in new feature rollouts, lead improvements in data infrastructure and automation, design systems for data processing tasks, contribute to monitoring and alerting systems, harden infrastructure security, resolve customer-reported issues, and participate in an on-call rotation. A key aspect of the role is spearheading the adoption of AI-driven development workflows, integrating LLM-based tools into the SDLC.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python, with deep technical troubleshooting skills and extensive experience building backend APIs and microservices.
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS core services and the ability to architect scalable solutions from high-level requirements.
• Proficiency in Terraform/Scalr and experience building robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (subnets, CIDR, VPCs) to ensure secure, global application accessibility.
• Knowledge with big-data tools and workflow orchestrators such as Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Temporal.
• Ability to leverage AI tools (Gemini, ChatGPT, Cursor) to streamline engineering workflows and enhance personal productivity.
• A proactive team player with excellent cross-team communication skills and a proven track record of driving complex projects to completion.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS preferred. AWS Cloud Infrastructure certification is a plus.
• Experience with data privacy concerns such as HIPAA or GDPR
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and with other customer-facing teams
• Passion for Komodo's mission and technology
• Ownership, accountability, and drive to see work through to completion, treating oneself as a co-founder.
• Deep knowledge in at least one area and ability to contribute quickly, with a willingness to share expertise.

Responsibilities

• Have developed a deep understanding of Platform and Platform customers
• Have built and operated cloud infrastructure (AWS) based on customer requirements
• Have solved any development and deployment challenges around making Platform infrastructure highly reliable, easy to maintain, and cost-effective
• Have participated in the development, execution, and support of the new feature rollout with solution architects, forward-deployed engineers, and customer success teams
• Led the development of improvements to data infrastructure, pipeline automation, codebase quality, and/or data quality.
• Designed, architected and/or implemented systems for supporting data processing tasks, like metadata, configuration and/or data pipeline inputs.
• Have developed and contributed to existing and new monitoring and alerting systems for Platform infrastructure
• Have hardened infrastructure security including network, storage, user access, etc.
• Have responded and solved key customer reported issues in a timely manner
• Participated in an on-call rotation
• Spearheaded the adoption of AI-driven development workflows, integrating LLM-based tools into the SDLC to accelerate feature delivery and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible time off and holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Leaves of absence in accordance with applicable state and local laws and regulations and company policy.

What This Job Offers

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