As an Infrastructure & Security Engineer at Axle, you'll play a critical role in building, scaling, and securing the systems that power our platform. Axle powers mission-critical insurance data extraction, validation, and verification - where getting things wrong has real-world consequences. You'll be responsible for maintaining reliable, scalable infrastructure across compute, storage, and deployment systems and protecting sensitive insurance and customer data, securing our infrastructure, and embedding best-in-class security practices across the engineering organization.
We're looking for individuals who think creatively about problems, keep up to date on the latest in AI research, and are excited about helping financial data reach full connectivity.
ImpactWe're powering mission-critical insurance data extraction, validation, and verification at companies where if we get things wrong, there are real world impacts (e.g., denied lending applications, modified compliance statuses, etc.).
Here's a few of the complex problems you'll be working on:
- Building industry-first evals for insurance data extractors and transformers
- Integrating context and understanding to standardize high-variability data points
- Understanding data management and hierarchy across overlapping data ingestors
- Orchestrating self-healing agents that automatically get better over time
Role- Build and scale infrastructure: Design and maintain cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking.
- Own deployment systems and application security: Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to enable fast, reliable releases. Design and implement security controls across our application, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- Protect sensitive data: Build systems and processes to safeguard confidential insurance and customer data.
- Ensure reliability and performance: Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to maintain high uptime and performance.
- Improve developer velocity: Build tooling and systems that make it easier for engineers to build, test, and deploy software.
- Ensure compliance readiness: Support security and compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2), including documentation, controls, and audits.
- Collaborate across teams: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure infrastructure scales and embed security into the development lifecycle without slowing velocity.
What would set you up for success- 6+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or security engineering, or a related role
- Strong understanding of application security, cloud security (e.g., AWS/GCP), and common vulnerability classes
- Experience scaling and securing production systems, including authentication, authorization, and data protection
- Strong understanding of CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability
- Experience with security tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response workflows
- Highly pragmatic - able to prioritize risks and implement effective, scalable solutions
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
- Clear communicator who can work effectively with other engineers, product teams, and leadership
Our team is in-person 4 days a week in our Flatiron/NoMad office in NYC and our West Midtown office in Atlanta.
