Senior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer
Stealth Health-Tech Startup
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 9, 2026
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About the job
Stealth Health-Tech Startup | Senior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-time | [salary range] + generous equity
We're a rapidly growing, venture-backed stealth startup helping people understand their medical records and lab results. We need an engineer to own security (HIPAA/SOC 2, KMS, IAM, audit logging), indexing and querying large volumes of medical data in Postgres, and scaling a serverless backend as traffic grows.
Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, AWS serverless (Lambda, Aurora Postgres, SQS, Step Functions), CDK.
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