Lead Infrastructure Engineer

The role

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer will define infrastructure at Atticus and build platforms and tooling to help engineers ship fast. You will shape the technical foundations, set the vision, and build systems and practices to support the company.

What you will do

• Shape the infrastructure roadmap
• Build security and operational foundations
• Improve reliability by reducing MTTR and establishing SLOs
• Empower product teams by building platforms and tools
• Write code and ship directly
• Shape infrastructure strategy

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform engineering roles
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Technical breadth across networking, security, observability, CI/CD, database operations, containerization
• Experience with consumer-facing, revenue-critical systems

Nice to have

• Led infrastructure evolution at a growing startup
• Ideally on a small team (<5 infra engineers)
• Excited by environments with little structure

Benefits

• Equity for all employees
• Medical and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and their families
• 15 vacation days
• ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at the end-of-year)
• Free membership to OneMedical
• $600/year internet stipend
• $1,000/year reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work
• Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
• 401(k)
• Optional HSA/FSA

About the company

Atticus is a platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits and helping victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence get compensation from insurance. They have raised more than $100 million from VC firms like Forerunner, Google Ventures, and True Ventures.