Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Carefeed; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacation, sick time, holidays

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Carefeed is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Chicago (Hybrid) to design, implement, and scale our cloud infrastructure and developer tooling. You will guide the growth of our infrastructure practice and lead efforts to improve reliability and efficiency across product teams.

The role combines product development mindset with infrastructure leadership, offering the chance to shape the technical direction and mentor peers on a fast-growing platform used by senior care organizations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• You care deeply about developer tooling and making engineering teams more efficient.
• Strong AWS experience; production systems on ECS and Aurora.
• Fluent in Terraform and CI/CD systems.
• Able to own complex problems from start to finish independently.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure for Carefeed products.
• Develop and maintain a CI/CD pipeline for rapid software delivery.
• Drive adoption and standardization of tooling across the engineering team.
• Respond to production incidents and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business operations as an infrastructure expert.

Skills

Infrastructure experience

SRE/DevOps

Independent working

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Carefeed is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Chicago (Hybrid) to design, implement, and scale our cloud infrastructure and developer tooling. You will guide the growth of our infrastructure practice and lead efforts to improve reliability and efficiency across product teams.

The role combines product development mindset with infrastructure leadership, offering the chance to shape the technical direction and mentor peers on a fast-growing platform used by senior care organizations.