Senior Infrastructure Engineer - DevOps / Platform (Remote)

About the position

A fast-growing venture-backed startup is hiring its first dedicated Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer to help scale a rapidly expanding platform. This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance , and will own the foundation that enables the engineering team to ship quickly and safely. You will design and evolve the company’s infrastructure strategy, build secure-by-default systems, and ensure the platform can scale reliably as adoption grows. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in early-stage environments , enjoys ownership, and wants to shape infrastructure architecture from the ground up.

Responsibilities
• Own infrastructure and security decisions across AWS and Kubernetes
• Harden cloud environments including networking, IAM, WAFs, and DNS
• Maintain and improve SOC 2 compliance workflows using tools such as Drata
• Design infrastructure strategy for 1–3 year scaling horizons
• Build automation, templates, and CI/CD guardrails to enable secure developer workflows
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance across infrastructure systems

Requirements
• 5–8 years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years in a dedicated DevOps / Infrastructure role
• Deep experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience managing cloud networking, IAM policies, and infrastructure security
• Strong background in Terraform or infrastructure-as-code
• Experience operating production environments with compliance requirements (SOC 2 preferred)

Nice-to-haves
• Startup-minded engineer who enjoys high ownership and autonomy
• Comfortable working as the first infrastructure hire
• Strong problem solver with a focus on security, reliability, and scalability
• Able to collaborate closely with product and engineering teams