Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work with remote Fridays

Annual offsite

Pets in office

Leadership growth

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch is hiring an Infrastructure & Security Engineer to lead ground-up DevOps, security, and platform initiatives. You will partner with the CTO to define best-in-class cloud architecture and security controls.

You will migrate to modern AWS infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability and developer velocity in a high-growth fintech/insurance tech context. Hybrid work with 4 in-office days per week in NYC, with optional Atlanta flexibility.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, platform, cloud, or security engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience owning infrastructure and security initiatives end-to-end.
• Experience working in startups, high-growth companies, or lean engineering organizations.
• Strong track record of operating independently with significant technical ownership.
• Experience in regulated B2B SaaS, fintech, insurance, cybersecurity, or similar high-trust environments is highly preferred.
• Experience establishing infrastructure or security practices from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Own Infrastructure & Security: be the first dedicated hire for DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, and security.
• Establish infrastructure procedures, security policies, engineering standards, and operational toolsets from scratch.
• Modernize Cloud Infrastructure: migrate legacy systems to AWS-based architectures and strengthen cloud design.
• Build and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and pipelines.
• Develop and maintain the security program, including SOC 2 compliance and security controls.
• Collaborate with CTO and leadership on infrastructure strategy and priorities.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python/Node.js

Security-minded

Job description

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Location

New York, NY / Atlanta, GA

4 days per week in-office in Flatiron/NoMad, New York City. Open to engineers who want to work hybrid from Atlanta.

Compensation

$180,000 -- $250,000 Base + 0.1%--0.3% Equity

Visa

Open to Visa Transfers --- OPT / H1B Transfers

Company Stage of Funding

Series A / Venture-Backed --- Founded 2022

Office Type

Hybrid --- 4 days per week in-office

Travel

Not specified

Company Description

We are a high-growth, AI-native fintech and insurance technology company building infrastructure that connects the insurance industry with businesses across financial services, automotive, mortgage, and other sectors.

The platform provides universal API infrastructure for insurance data, enabling companies to verify coverage, monitor policies, and automate complex insurance workflows in seconds rather than hours.

The company has built a lean, high-output engineering organization of approximately 25 employees and has experienced significant revenue growth while serving major enterprise customers. The platform supports RESTful APIs and agentic AI workflows across high-volume insurance use cases.

The company is backed by leading technology and venture investors and recently raised a $17.5M Series A. The team operates with a strong ownership mentality, moves quickly, and gives early employees significant responsibility for building foundational systems and processes from the ground up.

This is an opportunity to become the first dedicated Infrastructure & Security Engineer, working directly with the CTO to define infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, security, and developer tooling strategy as the engineering organization scales.

What You Will Do

• Own Infrastructure & Security: Become the first dedicated hire responsible for DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, and security.
• Establish infrastructure procedures, security policies, engineering standards, and operational toolsets from the ground up.
• Modernize Cloud Infrastructure: Migrate legacy infrastructure to modern AWS-based systems and strengthen cloud architecture.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Build Security Programs: Automate and maintain the company's security program, including ongoing SOC 2 compliance and security controls.
• Develop and maintain AI-specific security policies and governance processes.
• Build incident response workflows and improve organizational readiness for security and infrastructure incidents.
• Improve Developer Velocity: Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and developer tooling.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes to improve engineering productivity.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve development, testing, deployment, and production workflows.
• Advise Leadership: Partner directly with the CTO and engineering leadership on infrastructure architecture, security strategy, risk, and technical priorities.
• Embed a security-first mindset across the engineering organization.
• Establish monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational best practices.
• Evaluate infrastructure and security tooling and make pragmatic technology decisions.
• Help define the long-term platform strategy as the engineering organization grows.
• Take broad ownership across infrastructure, security, DevOps, and platform engineering in a highly ambiguous environment.
• Grow into a technical/team leadership role as the company and engineering organization scale.

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 6+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, platform, cloud, or security engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience owning infrastructure and security initiatives end-to-end.
• Experience working in startups, high-growth companies, or lean engineering organizations.
• Strong track record of operating independently with significant technical ownership.
• Experience working in regulated B2B SaaS, fintech, insurance, cybersecurity, or similarly high-trust environments is highly preferred.
• Experience establishing infrastructure or security practices from the ground up.
• Comfortable working directly with senior engineering and company leadership.

Technical Requirements

• Strong AWS experience.
• Strong infrastructure and cloud architecture fundamentals.
• Experience with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Strong understanding of deployment and release workflows.
• Experience with Python and/or Node.js.
• Strong understanding of production systems, networking, security, and cloud reliability.
• Experience automating infrastructure and operational processes.
• Strong scripting and debugging skills.

Infrastructure, DevOps & Platform Requirements

• Experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience migrating or modernizing legacy infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of deployment automation and developer tooling.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and production operations.
• Ability to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and improve reliability and scalability.
• Experience establishing infrastructure standards and operational procedures.

Security & Compliance Requirements

• Strong security-first mindset.
• Experience building or maintaining security programs.
• Experience with SOC 2 compliance and security controls.
• Experience automating security processes and workflows.
• Understanding of cloud security and infrastructure security.
• Experience with incident response processes.
• Ability to identify and mitigate infrastructure and application security risks.
• Experience developing security policies and engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with AI security policies or AI governance is preferred.
• Experience in regulated environments such as fintech, insurance, financial services, or B2B SaaS is highly preferred.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional ownership and initiative.
• Highly autonomous and comfortable operating as the first dedicated infrastructure/security hire.
• Strong founder mentality.
• Excellent technical judgment.
• Strong communication with engineering and executive leadership.
• Comfortable working directly with a CTO.
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Strong bias toward automation and continuous improvement.
• Able to balance security, reliability, engineering velocity, and business priorities.
• Willing to establish processes rather than simply operate existing ones.
• Strong interest in growing into technical and team leadership.

Compensation & Benefits

• $180K -- $250K base salary.
• 0.1%--0.3% equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Unlimited vacation / PTO.
• Flexible hybrid work with Fridays available for remote work.
• Annual team offsite.
• Pets welcome in the office.
• Opportunity to become the first dedicated Infrastructure & Security Engineer.
• Significant technical ownership across infrastructure, DevOps, security, and platform engineering.
• Direct partnership with the CTO and engineering leadership.

Why Join

• Become the first dedicated Infrastructure & Security Engineer and define the function from the ground up.
• Own infrastructure, DevOps, cloud architecture, security, compliance, and developer tooling.
• Work directly with the CTO on foundational technical strategy.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure and build a scalable AWS platform.
• Build security and SOC 2 programs rather than simply maintaining existing processes.
• Have significant influence over engineering velocity, reliability, and security.
• Work at the intersection of AI, fintech, insurance, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Join a lean team where individual contributions have outsized impact.
• Grow into a technical leadership role as the engineering organization scales.
• Work on infrastructure supporting enterprise customers and mission-critical insurance workflows.