I Hate My New Job

I started a new job this April as Sr. DevSecOps for a healthcare AI startup SaaS. We work with insurers and health plans. I'm finding:

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1. I hate insurance, the business as a whole does nothing but paperwork, and as a result, our product is spreadsheets with AI. Everyone here talks about random acronyms and insurance regulation and my eyes just glaze over, it's so uninteresting to me

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1. My boss, the VP of engineering, is leaving and so

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1. The security implications and work required to manage SOC2, HIPAA, ISO, and HITRUST are all on me and me alone now

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1. I'm already doing almost 50 hour weeks and am burning out 2 months in. My previous roles were much slower paced and hybrid, so 50 hours a week in an office is numbing my brain. I have 0 energy when I get home to do anything but watch TV.

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1. Engineering is 99% Claude code. I see so much tech debt and there is absolutely no care to fix it or reduce knowledge silos. Everyone works on their thing alone, so when Im making a product-wide security change or feature, I have to track down and talk to each engineer individually about a product I don't understand and don't want to understand

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1. I'm being pressured by leadership to push through all these audits in 12 months. The big hurdle is HITRUST, we are not that close and there's at least 6 months of implementation that'll have to happen.

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I'd love to be able to put HITRUST and this org on my resume but I really don't know if I can last here 9-12 more months to see HITRUST to the end. I know it shouldn't matter, but the company would be in a rough spot if I left right after the only other security minded person left.

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The market sucks, I don't want to leave, but I'm seriously burning out and fast. The last two weeks have been brutal for me.

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FWIW this is my 4th job in 4 years, 2 of those were layoffs and 1 was a bad fit (SWEs didn't know what docker was)

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Would you guys thug it out or start looking to leave?