Lead Infrastructure Engineer

At any given time 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today most never get it.

Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured person in crisis to get the life-changing aid they deserve. In the last six years we've become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits. We also help victims of accidents misconduct and violence get compensation from insurance. So far we've helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10B in life-changing aid and earned over 17000 five-star reviews. And we're just getting started.

We've raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Fika Forerunner GV (Google Ventures) and True Ventures with ambitions to create a category defining business assisting needy Americans. We closed our Series C in April 2025 have $50M+ in the bank and a highly profitable core business. We're well-funded for the foreseeable future. In 2025 our team grew from 151 to 210 and we will grow again in 2026.

We're looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to define what great infrastructure looks like at Atticus and build the platforms and tooling that help engineers ship fast without breaking things.

You'll be our second infrastructure engineer working with Jereme to shape our technical foundations from the ground up — setting the vision building the systems and establishing the practices that will support Atticus for years to come.

• You'll own infrastructure as a product serving Atticus's product engineering teams as your customers. This means:

• Shaping our infrastructure roadmap — developing a clear vision for where our infra needs to go and driving progress toward it

• Building security and operational foundations — laying the groundwork for sustainable growth

• Improving reliability — reducing MTTR establishing SLOs bringing rigor to how we manage outages

• Empowering product teams — you'll build the platforms and tools that let them own their systems end-to-end

This is a senior IC role reporting directly to Toby our VP of Engineering. You'll have a major hand in shaping our infrastructure strategy — and you'll also be writing code and shipping directly. We're a 20-person engineering team so there's no layer of abstraction between you and the work.

Required:

• 5+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform engineering roles with breadth across infra disciplines. We're looking for an infra generalist not a deep specialist in one narrow area.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Pulumi etc.)

• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You approach infrastructure with a builder's mindset.

• Technical breadth across infra domains: networking security observability CI/CD database operations containerization. We don’t expect you to be an expert in everything just knowledgeable enough to be effective on a small team without other specialists.

• Experience with consumer-facing revenue-critical systems though you don't need FAANG-scale experience.

Bonus / Nice-to-Have:

• You've led infrastructure evolution at a growing startup not just maintained existing systems. Ideally on a small team (<5 infra engineers).

• You're excited by environments with little structure — where you're expected to understand the bigger picture cut through ambiguity and figure out what matters most.

We are strongly committed to building a diverse team. If you're from a background that's underrepresented in tech we'd love to meet you.

This is a rare opportunity to join a startup that has strong traction (substantial funding well-respected backers tremendous growth and many happy customers) but is still small enough that you can have a huge impact and play a role in shaping our culture.

We're a certified B Corporation tackling a critical social problem. Our mission to help people in need drives everything we do and your work here will touch many lives.

We offer competitive pay — including equity — and generous benefits:

• Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered

• 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at the end-of-year)

• Free membership to OneMedical

• $600/year internet stipend

• $1000 reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work

• Up to $1200/year student loan repayment assistance

• 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA

• Humble thoughtful smart fun colleagues

We anticipate the base salary band for this role will be between $170000 and $220000 in addition to equity and benefits. The salary at offer will be determined by a number of factors such as candidate's experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity among our team.

This job is fully remote and we're committed to empowering everyone with flexibility. Work remotely and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues — usually quarterly plus offsites. We care a lot about building a great culture and we think some interactions need to happen in person so we put a lot of thought into retreats offsites and other ways to gather.

What We Do

At any given time 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today most never get it. Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured person in crisis to get the life-changing aid they deserve. In just three years we’ve become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits. We also help victims of accidents misconduct and violence get compensation from insurance. So far we’ve gotten thousands of people access to over $4B in life-changing aid and we’re just getting started. We've helped more than 110000 people in need (see our 13000+ five-star reviews) and raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Forerunner GV (Google Ventures) and True Ventures. (We just closed our Series C round in April 2025 so we're well-funded for the foreseeable future.)

Why Work With Us

We've helped over 110000 families in crisis to claim over $4 billion in lifetime benefits. We make money when we win for clients government or an insurer pays us a share. Anyone can afford us and our incentives are 100% aligned with our clients. We’re legally a B Corp bound by law to pursue our specific social mission. That won't ever change.

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