Infrastructure Engineer (Backend)

ABOUT COUNSEL http://counsel.health/ Counsel’s mission is to multiply the world's healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we’re building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We’ve redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter. [learn more on our blog https://www.counselhealth.com/blog] Since our founding in 2023, we have formed partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and are on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year. We have raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, Pear VC and other top-tier VC firms. Our team combines deep expertise in medicine (Harvard, Mt. Sinai, Mass General, UCSF) and technology (MIT, Google, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stripe, Meta) — and we’re looking for exceptional people to join us as we scale. Join us as we build the future of AI in healthcare! ----------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE ROLE At Counsel Health, we've built a product that patients and physicians love on a fast-moving stack. As we scale, the surface area between "application code" and "infrastructure" is growing — and we need someone who lives at that intersection. We are looking for a Backend Infrastructure Engineer who is equal parts software engineer and infrastructure engineer. You won't be sitting in a silo writing Terraform all day, and you won't be shipping product features in React. You'll operate on the critical layer in between: the CI/CD pipelines, the IaC that provisions our AWS environment, the backend services that glue our systems together, and the developer tooling that keeps a fast-growing engineering team productive. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Contribute to Our Infrastructure-as-Code: develop and maintain our cloud infrastructure using Terraform. - Build & Improve CI/CD: Own our build, test, and deployment pipelines end-to-end. Your goal is to make deploying to production boring — fast, reliable, and automatic. - Backend Engineering: Write production backend services and contribute to core server-side systems. You're comfortable writing application code, not just orchestrating it. - Build Core Archetypes: Write production grade archetypes for new deployments, jobs, consumers, and workers. You’re comfortable building out an abstract base stream consumer or cron executor for widespread use. - Developer Experience: Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster. Improve local dev workflows, reduce build times, eliminate flaky infrastructure, and build internal tooling that the team actually wants to use. - Security & Compliance: Work closely with our security and compliance team to harden our infrastructure posture — secrets management, IAM policies, network isolation, and audit logging in a HIPAA-regulated environment. WHO YOU ARE - A Bridge Builder: You're equally comfortable in an IDE writing application code and in a terminal managing cloud infrastructure. You don't see "backend" and "infra" as separate disciplines. - An Automation Leader: If you do something manually twice, you're already writing the script to automate it the third time. - Systems Thinker: You understand how a request flows from a user's browser through a load balancer, into a container, hits a database, and comes back — and you can debug any layer of that stack. - Pragmatic & Shipping-Oriented: You pick the right tool for the job, not the trendy one. You'd rather ship a working solution today than architect a perfect one next quarter. - A Strong Communicator: You can explain infrastructure decisions to product engineers and translate product requirements into infrastructure changes. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 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 langu