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Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Axle· Engineering
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New York City, NY$180k - $250kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Infrastructure & Security Engineer at Axle, an AI-native clearinghouse for insurance. Responsible for building, scaling, and securing the platform's compute, storage, deployment, and data protection systems; embedding security practices; ensuring reliability, compliance, and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale infrastructure: Design and maintain cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking.
  • Own deployment systems and application security: Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to enable fast, reliable releases. Design and implement security controls across our application, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Protect sensitive data: Build systems and processes to safeguard confidential insurance and customer data.
  • Ensure reliability and performance: Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to maintain high uptime and performance.
  • Improve developer velocity: Build tooling and systems that make it easier for engineers to build, test, and deploy software.
  • Ensure compliance readiness: Support security and compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2), including documentation, controls, and audits.
  • Collaborate across teams: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure infrastructure scales and embed security into the development lifecycle without slowing velocity.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or security engineering, or a related role
  • Strong understanding of application security, cloud security (e.g., AWS/GCP), and common vulnerability classes
  • Experience scaling and securing production systems, including authentication, authorization, and data protection
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability
  • Experience with security tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response workflows
  • Highly pragmatic — able to prioritize risks and implement effective, scalable solutions
  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
  • Clear communicator who can work effectively with other engineers, product teams, and leadership

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructureApplication securityCI/CD

Benefits

  • great compensation and equity
  • full benefits & 401k
  • unlimited time-off
  • annual team offsite
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Axle

Universal API for insurance

Axle is Plaid for insurance - a universal API for insurance data. With Axle, companies can instantly verify insurance and monitor ongoing coverage, helping them reduce operational cost while creating a frictionless experience for users. Axle is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, and angels from industry leaders like Plaid and Cox Automotive.

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