Axle Health

Axle Health

Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure

Santa Monica HQ · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 95 days ago
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About the role

  • Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and U Penn Health System) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.
  • We're a team of top-tier engineers and operators, backed by $14m from top investors such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, and F-Prime, applying our intellect and logistics experience to upend how home healthcare is delivered.
  • We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this shift in healthcare.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Axle's cloud infrastructure on AWS, driving architectural decisions that balance security, scalability, cost, and developer velocity
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls including code scanning, secret detection, and dependency vulnerability checks
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform or equivalent tools, maintaining clean, audited, and well-documented configurations across all environments
  • Implement and enforce HIPAA-compliant security practices at the infrastructure layer - including PHI encryption, audit logging, BAA management, and access controls
  • Manage container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), including image hardening, pod security policies, and least-privilege configurations
  • Build and maintain centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Datadog) to enable proactive detection of anomalous activity and rapid incident response
  • Implement and maintain secrets management using tools like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, eliminating hardcoded credentials across services
  • Configure and maintain network security controls including WAFs, DDoS protection, TLS certificate management, and network segmentation across environments
  • Partner with engineering teams to enforce environment parity and prevent configuration drift across development, staging, and production
  • Coordinate and support penetration testing engagements, remediation tracking, and patch management across servers, containers, and dependencies

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering, ideally at a growth-stage company
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, including security auditing of templates and managing state across environments
  • Proven track record implementing security controls in CI/CD pipelines (code scanning, secret detection, SAST/DAST tooling)
  • Deep expertise with AWS including: IAM, VPC, ECS or EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and related HIPAA-eligible services
  • Hands-on experience with container security: Docker and Kubernetes hardening, image scanning, and runtime policy enforcement
  • Working knowledge of HIPAA technical safeguards, including PHI encryption at rest and in transit, audit log requirements, and Business Associate Agreements
  • Familiarity with Datadog or similar observability platforms for log management, APM, and alerting
  • Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches

Skills

  • Fast paced work environment geared towards professional growth
  • Get the chance to move roles within the organization to learn new skills and continue to make an impact

Compensation

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.

Benefits

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.
  • All of our employees have equity compensation.
  • We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this
  • shift in healthcare.
  • We are committed to your Wellness:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Flexible PTO and sick days
  • Commuter benefits

Company info

  • Axle Health builds AI scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable-at home.
  • Our platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, a mobile app for field staff, an operations dashboard for office teams, engagement and booking tools for patients, and a wide range of integrations and external APIs for modular access.
  • Axle Health is building AI scheduling and workforce management software that powers in-home healthcare delivery for some of the largest providers in the country.
  • As we scale our platform to support hundreds of thousands of patients and expand our enterprise customer base, the reliability, security, and performance of our infrastructure becomes mission-critical; not just technically, but for the patients whose care depends on it.
  • We're looking for a Senior Engineer, DevOps & Infrastructure to own the foundation that everything else runs on.
  • This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for someone who takes deep pride in the craft of building secure, observable, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
  • You'll be the primary driver of our DevOps maturity, security posture, and HIPAA compliance at the infrastructure layer: working closely with our backend engineers to make sure every system we ship is reliable, hardened, and production-ready.
  • Our ideal candidate is a seasoned infrastructure practitioner who thrives in fast-moving startup environments, brings strong security instincts, and can operate with significant autonomy while staying closely connected to the engineering team's day-to-day work.
  • Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours
  • We are committed to your Ownership:
  • We are committed to your Growth:
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