Infrastructure Engineer (Backend)
Counsel Health5 months ago
Manhattan, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- Own and improve build, test, and deployment pipelines end-to-end.
- Write production backend services and contribute to core server-side systems.
- Build reusable deployment, job, consumer, and worker archetypes.
- Improve local development workflows, build times, infrastructure reliability, and internal developer tooling.
- Harden infrastructure through secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation, and audit logging in collaboration with security and compliance teams.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of professional experience in backend engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a hybrid of both.
- Strong proficiency in at least one strongly typed or compiled language such as Go, Rust, Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services.
- Familiarity with containerized environments and Docker.
- Hands-on Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience is a bonus.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar is a bonus.
- Kubernetes experience is a bonus.
- TypeScript/Node.js experience is a bonus.
- Experience in regulated environments such as HIPAA or SOC 2 is a strong plus.
Benefits
- NYC hybrid, Boston hybrid, or East Coast remote work arrangement
- Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Professional development and broad ownership opportunities
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCircleCIDockerGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisRustTerraformTypeScript
About Counsel Health
Counsel Health delivers AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care through a secure messaging-based experience. Built with enterprise-grade safety standards and AI safety guardrails, Counsel partners with health plans, consumer health solutions, employers, and health systems to provide a modern front door to care that significantly improves member access while ensuring clinical quality. By replacing outdated access points like nurse advice lines and legacy telehealth, Counsel helps organizations reduce high-cost claims, increase utilization of existing health solutions, and improve engagement, all while delivering care that is reliable, cost-effective, and scalable.