Senior Backend Engineer - Platform & DevOps (Remote)

Helm Health Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Home office stipend

401(k) + matching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Helm Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and own platform engineering, focusing on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and operational tooling. You will be the second engineer on the team, providing cross‑coverage, including shared on‑call rotation.

We're looking for someone with strong backend fundamentals and infrastructure expertise. This fully remote role offers a competitive base salary with equity and benefits, and opportunities to

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend engineering with infra/DevOps focus
• Strong Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production
• Experience operating and scaling relational and NoSQL databases

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

Backend engineering

CI/CD

Monitoring/observability

On-call experience

Security/compliance awareness

Tools

Terraform/Terraform Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Redis

BigQuery

Bigtable

Firestore

Job description

Helm Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and own platform engineering, focusing on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and operational tooling. You will be the second engineer on the team, providing cross‑coverage, including shared on‑call rotation.

We're looking for someone with strong backend fundamentals and infrastructure expertise. This fully remote role offers a competitive base salary with equity and benefits, and opportunities to