Axle Health

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure

Santa Monica HQ. Posted 7 months ago

The role

You will own and evolve cloud infrastructure on AWS. You will drive DevOps maturity, security posture, and HIPAA compliance at the infrastructure layer.

What you will do

  • Own and evolve cloud infrastructure on AWS
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform or equivalent tools
  • Implement and enforce HIPAA-compliant security practices
  • Manage container orchestration including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Build and maintain centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting systems
  • Implement and maintain secrets management
  • Configure and maintain network security controls
  • Partner with engineering teams to enforce environment parity
  • Coordinate and support penetration testing engagements

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering
  • 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
  • Proven track record implementing security controls in CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands-on experience with container security: Docker and Kubernetes hardening, image scanning, and runtime policy enforcement
  • Working knowledge of HIPAA technical safeguards
  • Strong operational instincts

Nice to have

  • Experience at a healthcare technology company or in another compliance-heavy industry (SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI DSS)
  • Familiarity with Datadog or similar observability platforms
  • Exposure to penetration testing coordination or red team/blue team exercises
  • Experience building or maintaining secrets management systems using HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager at scale
  • Contributions to security culture beyond your immediate role

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k plan
  • Flexible PTO and sick days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Daily catered lunches
  • Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours
  • Special team outings

About the company

Axle Health builds AI scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers. The platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms, a mobile app, an operations dashboard, and engagement tools.