Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

Job Overview

We're building AI infrastructure for the $50B personal injury legal market. Every year, millions of injury cases move through the legal system. Attorneys spend weeks reviewing medical records - hundreds of pages per case - to find the critical details that determine case outcomes. It's time-intensive, expensive, and leaves room for human error. Parambil is solving this with AI. Our platform transforms medical record review from weeks of manual work into minutes of intelligent analysis. We help attorneys quickly identify key medical facts, surface case-critical details, and build stronger arguments for their clients.

What We're Looking For

We need our first dedicated infrastructure engineer - someone who will own our infrastructure, scale our systems, and ensure we can handle rapid growth without breaking. You'll also jump into TypeScript when needed, whether it's building internal tools, optimizing backend services, or helping ship features during critical moments. This is a rare opportunity to define infrastructure practices from the ground up at a fast-growing AI startup, working on challenges that span AWS architecture, deployment pipelines, observability, data infrastructure, security, and scalability.

Core infrastructure experience:

• 5+ years building and scaling production infrastructure


• Deep AWS expertise: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, load balancing, auto-scaling


• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)


• Production experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation


• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system architecture


• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (DataDog, CloudWatch, Grafana, or similar)


• Database operations and optimization experience (PostgreSQL preferred)


• Full-stack capabilities: Comfortable writing TypeScript - you can build internal tools, debug backend issues, and contribute to the application when needed


• Experience optimizing backend services for performance and reliability


• Understanding of modern web architecture: APIs, authentication, job queues, caching


• Able to work across the stack when the team needs help shipping

Bonus points for:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure (GPU instances, model serving, vector databases)


• Security experience: SOC 2, HIPAA compliance, secrets management, access controls


• Prior startup experience, especially as an early infrastructure hire


• Experience in legal tech, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries


• Background in SRE or DevOps practices

Your Role

Build and scale infrastructure (70% of time):
Design and implement scalable AWS architecture for our AI platform
Build and maintain deployment pipelines and development workflows
Optimize database performance, implement caching strategies, manage data pipelines
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability practices - know what's happening before users do
Implement security best practices: IAM policies, network security, encryption, secrets management
Plan for scale: ensure our infrastructure can handle 10x growth without major rewrites
Own reliability: incident response, post-mortems, continuous improvement

Support product development (30% of time):
Write TypeScript to build internal tools, admin dashboards, and automation scripts
Jump in to help ship features during critical launches or tight deadlines
Optimize backend services and APIs for performance
Debug production issues across the full stack
Work with the team to make smart technical decisions that balance speed and sustainability

What We Offer

Build from scratch: Define infrastructure practices at a company in hypergrowth mode - your decisions will scale with us
Real impact: Your work directly enables product velocity and protects sensitive medical/legal data
Technical challenges: Scale AI/ML workloads, process massive datasets, build for HIPAA compliance, optimize for both speed and reliability
Elite team: Work with talented engineers who value craft and will be eager partners
Comprehensive benefits: Medical insurance, 401(k)
Fast growth: Scale your work and potentially build an infrastructure team as we grow
Competitive compensation: $160K–$200K base + meaningful equity
Great culture: Tight-knit team in NYC near Grand Central that values curiosity, speed, and execution

Why Parambil?

Strategic importance: Infrastructure is a competitive advantage and enables everything we do - it's not an afterthought
Greenfield opportunity: Build infrastructure the right way from the beginning, not fix years of tech debt
High trust environment: Direct access to leadership, your recommendations will be taken seriously
Career growth: First infrastructure hire with clear path to infrastructure leadership as we scale
Meaningful work: Build systems that protect sensitive data