Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Full Job Description

About Atticus

At any given time, 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today, most never get it.

Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured American to get life-changing aid. Our mission is to tear down barriers between people in crisis and the aid they deserve. In the last six years, we’ve become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits.

We also help victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence get compensation from insurance. So far, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10 billion in life-changing aid —and earned over 20,000 five-star reviews. And we’re just getting started.

We've raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Fika, Forerunner, Google Ventures, and True Ventures, and we’re on our way to creating a category defining business assisting needy Americans.

The Job

We're looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to define what great infrastructure looks like at Atticus and build the platforms and tooling that help engineers ship fast without breaking things.

You'll be our second infrastructure engineer, working with Jereme to shape our technical foundations from the ground up — setting the vision, building the systems, and establishing the practices that will support Atticus for years to come.

• You'll own infrastructure as a product, serving Atticus's product engineering teams as your customers. This means:

• Shaping our infrastructure roadmap — developing a clear vision for where our infra needs to go and driving progress toward it

• Building security and operational foundations — laying the groundwork for sustainable growth

• Improving reliability — reducing MTTR, establishing SLOs, bringing rigor to how we manage outages

• Empowering product teams — you'll build the platforms and tools that let them own their systems end-to-end

This is a senior IC role reporting directly to Toby, our VP of Engineering. You'll have a major hand in shaping our infrastructure strategy — and you'll also be writing code and shipping directly. We're a 20-person engineering team, so there's no layer of abstraction between you and the work.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform engineering roles, with breadth across infra disciplines. We're looking for an infra generalist, not a deep specialist in one narrow area.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)

• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You approach infrastructure with a builder's mindset.

• Technical breadth across infra domains: networking, security, observability, CI/CD, database operations, containerization. We don’t expect you to be an expert in everything, just knowledgeable enough to be effective on a small team without other specialists.

• Experience with consumer-facing, revenue-critical systems, though you don't need FAANG-scale experience.

Bonus / Nice-to-Have:

• You've led infrastructure evolution at a growing startup, not just maintained existing systems. Ideally on a small team (

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