Joyful Health

Joyful Health

Founding Infra Engineer

New York City · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$275kDetected 167 days ago
PythonGitPostgreSQLCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDGitHub Actions

About the role

  • We're hiring a founding Infra engineer with deep experience across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and production-grade reliability.
  • Our platform ingests, reconciles, and analyzes large volumes of messy financial data from every type of healthcare system imaginable.
  • Keeping that pipeline stable, secure, and scalable is mission-critical.

Responsibilities

  • Accelerate the entire engineering team by building novel tooling, automation, and proven infra best practices that dramatically increase development velocity
  • Design and maintain high-leverage CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions) that make shipping safe, fast, and frustration-free
  • Own our Kubernetes-based platform end-to-end: architecture, deployment strategy, scaling, and overall reliability
  • Build a stable, automated infrastructure layer around our Python services, ingestion pipelines, and compute workloads
  • Improve and optimize PostgreSQL performance, monitoring, and operational stability across workloads
  • Drive the team's infrastructure roadmap and ensure our architecture supports rapid onboarding and growth
  • Build internal tooling that reduces complexity, eliminates manual ops, and gives engineers "superpowers"
  • Collaborate closely with engineering and product to ensure that infra choices enable-not constrain-our product velocity

Requirements

  • You have 5+ years of experience in Infra//SRE/platform engineering roles
  • You have strong experience with:

Compensation

  • The base pay range for this role is $150,000-$275,000 per year.

Benefits

  • Building the financial operating system for healthcare, and bringing the joy back to healthcare by fixing the financial chaos behind it.
  • Joyful Health is building the AI-powered financial operating system for healthcare practices.
  • The broken healthcare payment ecosystem impacts practices of all sizes, and the opportunity to make a real difference is massive.
  • Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and build a clean operational picture of system health
  • You're energized by Joyful Health's mission-building tools that help providers take control of their financial health

Company info

  • Our mission is to bring the joy back to running a private practice by simplifying financial operations so providers can focus on patient care.
  • We're looking for someone NYC-based who is open to coming into the office 3 days a week.

This listing is sourced directly from Joyful Health's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.