Senior Back-End Engineer: Infrastructure

About Helm Health

Role Overview

Responsibilies

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation.
• Manage and scale cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
• Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terraform Cloud
• Support database operations across PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Firestore — including provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning
• Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
• Support compliance and security requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2)

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend engineering, with significant infrastructure or DevOps experience
• Strong Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production
• Google Cloud Platform experience
• Hands-on experience operating and scaling databases (relational and NoSQL)
• Experience with CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability tooling
• Backend engineering fundamentals — you've built and maintained production services, even if infrastructure is now your primary focus

Preferred Qualifications

• Go proficiency
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and runbook creation
• Healthcare infrastructure experience — HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST
• Incident management tooling (incident.io or similar)
• Python proficiency
• Start-up experience

Characteristics

• Reliable and detail-oriented — infrastructure mistakes are expensive, and you take that seriously.
• Mission-driven — motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent
• Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know
• Versatile — you're an infrastructure specialist who can context-switch into application-level work when needed

Internal Tools/Technology

• HCP Terraform / Google Cloud Platform
• Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
• Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
• incident.io / Sentry / Cloudsmith
• Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — we are an AI-forward engineering team
• macOS / Linux

Compensation

Benefits/Offerings

• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days)
• Computer + home office stipend
• 401(k) + matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Autonomy and tons of room for career growth

Occasional Travel