Senior Software Engineer, DevOps and Infrastructure
About the role
Senior Engineer focused on DevOps and infrastructure to support Axle Health’s HIPAA-compliant, scalable cloud platform for in-home healthcare scheduling and workforce management.
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
- Support disaster recovery planning, backup validation, and risk assessment processes aligned with HIPAA contingency plan requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering, ideally at a growth-stage company
- 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, 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)
- 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
- Strong operational instincts: you write runbooks, you care about on-call hygiene, and you close the loop on incidents with structured postmortems
Skills
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401k plan
- Flexible PTO and sick days
- Commuter benefits
- Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches
- Equity compensation
About Axle Health
Scheduling and workforce management SaaS for home healthcare providers
Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software for home healthcare providers. The Axle platform includes a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, and a patient engagement and booking solution. Axle is integrated with a wide range of EMRs, and the entire Axle product can be customized and accessed modularly via API. Some of the biggest home health care providers in the country use Axle’s software to improve the utilization of their clinical teams, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.
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