Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sodalis, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

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Job summary

Sodalis, Inc. is building AI agents to streamline specialty pharmacy operations, starting with AI pharmacy tech and cloud-to-on-prem deployments.

The Software Engineer, Infrastructure will define how our architecture runs in pharmacy environments, adapt infrastructure for on-prem or hybrid deployments, and partner with the founders to scale deployments while ensuring observability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• AWS-native stack on Kubernetes or similar in customer environments.
• Experience shipping software in environments you don't control (on-prem, customer-hosted, edge, or embedded).
• Experience maintaining remote deployments without direct access.
• Comfort with ambiguity and startup patterns.
• Ability to work with pharmacy IT teams and understand constraints.

Responsibilities

• Decide deployment architecture for pharmacy environments (on-site / hybrid / cloud).
• Adapt infrastructure and create packaging/deployment paths for Sodalis installs.
• Own deployments over time: upgrades, rollbacks, observability.
• Collaborate with customers to learn allowed environments and design for range.
• Partner with founders on architecture.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

Remote deployments

Startup experience

Job description

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Hybrid in Palo Alto (Mon / Wed / Thurs) · $185K–$215K base + meaningful early-stage equity + full benefits

About Sodalis

Specialty pharmacy is where the most complex and expensive drugs reach the most in-need patients, and it still runs on faxes, phone tag, and manual data entry. Patients wait weeks for therapies that can't wait.

Sodalis is building AI agents that run those operations end to end: reading and validating prescriptions, handling phone calls, and moving prescriptions through eligibility and fulfillment. The ambition goes beyond that. We want to be the rails every specialty prescription runs on, and the first system to perform clinical review at the standard of a pharmacist.

We're already in production, processing tens of thousands of prescriptions a week. Backed by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund), and founded by veterans of Apple's Applied ML, Included Health, and Avella Specialty Pharmacy (scaled to $1.5B+ before its acquisition by OptumRx).

The Opportunity

Everything we run today is cloud-based, and so are the pharmacy management systems we integrate with. But most of the specialty pharmacy market runs on-prem. To reach it, our system has to run on the pharmacy's systems instead of ours. Whether that's the full stack on-site or a hybrid split with our cloud is one of the first decisions you'd make. That's the problem you'd own.
We've never shipped an on-prem deployment, so there's no pattern to follow. You'll decide how our architecture gets packaged and deployed into environments we don't control, what has to change in our current infrastructure to make that possible, and how we maintain and see into those deployments once they're live.

We don't yet know what these environments look like in detail. Some pharmacies may have restricted outbound access, legacy hardware, or IT teams that can't give us a login; others may be more open. Part of the job is going in with our customer, finding out what's actually there, and designing something that works across the range.
You'll start with our AI pharmacy tech product, rolling out with a committed customer, so you build against a real deployment instead of a hypothetical one. You'd work directly with the founders and the early engineering team on the architecture.

What you'll do

• Decide how our architecture runs in a pharmacy's environment, starting with the AI pharmacy tech product: full stack on-site, a hybrid split with our cloud, or something in between.

• Adapt our current infrastructure and build the packaging and deployment path that installs and updates Sodalis at each pharmacy.

• Own those deployments over time: upgrades, rollbacks, and observability into health and failures without being on site.

• Go in with our customer and pharmacy IT teams to learn what their environments actually allow, and design for the range.

• Partner with the founders and early engineering team on architecture.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.

• You've taken an AWS-native stack and made it run on Kubernetes or similar in environments you don't operate, including stateful services.

• You've shipped and maintained software running in environments you don't control: on-prem, customer-hosted, edge, or embedded.

• You've kept a fleet of remote installs updated, observable, and recoverable without being able to log into them.

• You've set the first pattern for something in a startup and are comfortable with ambiguity.

• You'll spend time with pharmacy IT teams and need to understand their constraints firsthand. No healthcare background required.

How we work

We're a handful of people going all in on a problem we think is worth it, holding a high bar and shipping work that reaches real patients. It's intense, and it isn't for everyone. We want people who want to build something that matters, alongside others who care as much as they do. If that's you, we should talk.