Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: United States

Compensation: $160K – $230K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Remote (United States) • Full-time

About our Company

Government’s biggest challenges — homelessness, election administration, emergency response — aren’t solved by a single agency. Work happens across dozens of organizations that often struggle to coordinate and act in real time.

Civic Roundtable is a government operations platform that helps public servants do exactly that. We give wide networks of agencies and partner organizations the tools to consolidate information, coordinate mission-critical work, and move faster together so the people on the frontlines of public problems have what they need to serve their communities.

Trusted by 4,000+ organizations across all 50 states, Civic Roundtable emerged from the Harvard Innovation Labs and is backed by General Catalyst.

About the Role

We're looking for a founding infrastructure engineer to own our cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, security, and compliance. As our first and only platform hire, your goal will be to enable engineers to move fast with confidence, while meeting the high standards of government technology.

This role will report to and work closely with our Head of Engineering.

What You'll Own

• Platform & infrastructure – AWS GovCloud, Terraform codebase, reliability, performance, and cost

• Developer tooling – CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions), local dev environment setup, and AI-enablement across the team

• Security & compliance – SOC 2 audits, NIST alignment, pen test coordination, access reviews, policy maintenance, and pursuit of additional authorizations

• Internal IT – the lightweight day-to-day (password resets, device issues) that keeps the team unblocked

• Automation & efficiency – finding manual, repetitive, or error-prone processes across the team and automating them away

What You'll Support

• Technical pre-sales – occasional prospect calls and security questionnaires, partnering with our go-to-market team

• Technical services – ad hoc support for customer requests like SSO or DNS setup, partnering with our deployments team

• Product engineering – infrastructure and scaling input for new product surfaces, partnering with our product managers and engineering leads

About You

We’re excited about people who:

• Prefer autonomy (and the ambiguity that comes with it) to explicit direction

• Notice broken systems and instinctively want to improve them

• Write exceptionally well and communicate clearly under pressure

• Can independently own multiple priorities and know when to loop others in

• Thrive in early-stage environments where the job changes week-to-week

• Care about making government work better for the people it serves

We’re hoping you have:

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering roles

• High confidence with AWS, Terraform, and Github Actions

• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST, CJIS, HIPAA, or similar)

• Fluency with AI – for your own IaC, to enable product engineers, and to automate systems across the company

Why You’ll Love Working @ Civic Roundtable

• You'll have a competitive salary, meaningful equity, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements as part of our first 30 employees

• You'll play a direct role in making government more effective and efficient

• You'll build a foundational function from scratch and shape its direction

• You'll work on infrastructure that matters – government-grade with real stakes

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you’re passionate about building great products and making a difference, we want to hear from you!