Infrastructure & Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Axle is building the AI-native clearinghouse for insurance, unlocking access to a core financial data primitive that impacts almost every industry and transaction. Our mission is to completely transform the communication layer for insurance. 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.

🏢 About Axle

Axle is the AI-native clearinghouse for property and casualty insurance. Our infrastructure and AI agents automate complex insurance workflows for third parties including verification, monitoring, and policy updates. We are backed by leading investors including Base10, Y Combinator, and Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund) and angels from companies like Plaid and Cox Automotive. Our team is in-person 4 days a week in our Flatiron/NoMad office in NYC and our West Midtown office in Atlanta.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

🎁 Benefits

We care deeply about our team and provide great compensation and equity, full benefits & 401k, unlimited time-off, and plan an annual team offsite!

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Axle is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.