Koda Health is looking for a Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer to own the reliability, security, and operational health of our production systems.

You'll be the person responsible for keeping our platform running, secure, and observable — owning everything from AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines to incident response, security compliance, and production monitoring. You'll work directly with the CTO and a small engineering team.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. We run a multi-region healthcare platform on AWS with real uptime requirements, HIPAA obligations, and SOC 2 compliance. You'll inherit a mature CDK codebase and be expected to extend it, harden it, and build the monitoring and incident management layer.

We also want someone who can contribute to the codebase and automate operational work. You won't be a full-time software engineer, but you should be comfortable using AI coding tools like Claude Code to make small TypeScript PRs, triage Sentry errors, fix production bugs, and set up automated monitoring, triage, and recurring infrastructure health checks.

Expect roughly:

60–70% infrastructure, architecture, reliability, and monitoring
10–20% security, compliance, and vendor questionnaires
5–10% TypeScript contributions (bug fixes, small features, Sentry triage)

What You'll DoProduction Reliability & Observability

Own the operational health of production across two AWS regions
Investigate production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and drive resolution
Build and maintain dashboards that give real-time visibility into application health, queue depths, API latency, and error rates
Monitor SQS/SNS queue health, dead-letter queues, and event processing pipelines
Expand observability beyond CloudWatch - evaluate and implement distributed tracing, APM, and log aggregation
Oversee weekly deployments to production
Own cost monitoring and alerting (Budget alerts, Cost Explorer)
Improve automated uptime and SLA reporting

AWS Infrastructure & CDK

Own and evolve all AWS infrastructure defined in CDK
Lead the migration to capturing 100% of cloud infrastructure in CDK
Manage and improve services: Lambda, ECS Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, WAF, Cognito
Support multi-region uptime, disaster recovery planning, and backup/restore practices
Improve cross-region replication and automated failover
Own deployment pipelines, release processes, and database migration safety
Support and evolve data pipelines used for analytics and product features
Set standards for how we ship, deploy, and operate software at scale

Security, Compliance & Hardening

We're a healthcare company. HIPAA and SOC 2 aren't checkboxes - they're how we operate. You'll own the security posture of our infrastructure.

Maintain and harden AWS infrastructure with a strong security mindset
Own vulnerability remediation and SLA timelines
Help respond to security questionnaires and vendor assessments
Own and improve WAF rules, security groups, IAM policies, and network configuration
Own SecurityHub, AWS Config, VPC Flow Logs, and CloudTrail
Support GuardDuty malware scanning and S3 upload security
Ensure SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance across infrastructure
Manage secrets, key rotation, and access controls
Conduct periodic security reviews of infrastructure and application configuration

Backend Contributions

You're not a full-time developer, but you can ship some code with the help of AI coding tools.

Triage and fix production errors surfaced by Sentry
Make small TypeScript PRs to backend services
Debug complex production issues that span infrastructure and application code
Participate in architecture discussions, especially around infrastructure and deployment concerns

6+ years building and operating production systems on AWS
Strong experience with AWS CDK (we use CDK in typescript)
Deep knowledge of core AWS services: Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, IAM, VPC, WAF
Experience setting up and managing monitoring, alerting, and incident management
Experience with security hardening and compliance in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
Working knowledge of TypeScript or Node.js - enough to read the codebase, make PRs, and debug production issues
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or similar)
Comfortable owning production systems end-to-end in a small team where you're the expert
Strong English fluency - written & verbal communication (security questionnaire responses, etc)
US-based, able to work CST/EST hours (contractual requirement).

Bonus Points

Healthcare industry experience (FHIR, HL7v2, Epic/Cerner integrations)
Experience with multi-region AWS architectures and disaster recovery
Experience with MongoDB operations and performance
Experience with cost optimization in AWS
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code)

Base salary of $160,000 - $170,000 per year
Fully remote role (US-based)
Flexible, Unlimited Paid Time Off
Great medical, dental, and vision coverage
401k options
Yearly personal development budget that can be used for books, courses, trainings, and more
Office setup budget
Annual company and team events
Latest Macbook + enterprise tooling (e.g. Claude Code, etc)
Opportunity to gain exposure to applied RL and SFT work on foundational AI models
Clear growth paths for ICs (Staff/Principal) and managers (EM/Director).

Find Your Perfect Job

Find Your Perfect Job