Infrastructure & Security Engineer
- Company
- Axle
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Work type
- Full Time
- Posted
- 2026-08-11
Job description
Why you should consider joining
We have a product loved by customers and being used in mission-critical flows at Fortune 500 banks and leading brands like Hertz, Avis, and Audi.
We're punching well above our weight, supporting customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of other startups — everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact.
We're tackling unsolved problems at the intersection of complex data structuring, agentic workflows, and financial risk analysis.
We've grown revenue 5x this year to multiple $millions ARR, with our growth continuing to accelerate.
We're backed by world class investors, including Google (Gradient Ventures), YC, and leaders from Plaid and Cox Automotive.
We care deeply about our team and provide great compensation and equity, full benefits & 401k, unlimited time-off, and plan an annual team offsite!
Impact
We'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