Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Gifthealth

Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Gifthealth developing scalable Ruby on Rails applications. Responsible for embedding reliability, automation, and DevOps practices into software systems.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $123,000 - $154,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformPrometheusRubyRuby on RailsTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designs, builds, and maintains reliable, scalable software systems supporting Ruby on Rails applications
Embeds reliability, performance, and operational best practices into application code and development workflows
Owns DevOps practices including CI/CD reliability, deployment strategies, and release safety
Leads incident response, debugging, and root cause analysis across application and platform layers
Implements and evolves observability (logging, metrics, tracing) within application and service code
Partners with engineering teams on architecture, capacity planning, and technical standards

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience in software engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles (Required)
Cloud platform certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure) (Preferred)
SRE or DevOps-focused certifications (Preferred)
5+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles (Required)
Hands-on experience building and operating Ruby on Rails applications in production (Required)
Experience in owning production incidents and application-level reliability (Required)
Experience in high-growth or scaling engineering organizations (Preferred)
Experience working in regulated or customer-impact–sensitive environments (Preferred)
Knowledge of Ruby on Rails application architecture and production operations; software reliability engineering principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets); and modern DevOps and CI/CD practices (Required)
Knowledge of security and compliance considerations in production systems (Preferred)
Strong software engineering skills (Ruby and/or comparable backend languages) (Required)
Debugging and performance optimization of production applications skills (Required)
CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling skills (Required)
Monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, etc.) skills (Required)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) skills (Preferred)
Containerization and orchestration (Docker) skills (Preferred)
Ability to write production-quality code that improves system reliability (Required)
Ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence design decisions (Required)
Ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-system failures (Required)
Ability to mentor engineers on operational ownership and reliability practices (Preferred)
Ability to balance speed of delivery with long-term system health (Preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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B2B Gifthealth is a technology-enabled patient access and prescription fulfillment company that connects patients, prescribers, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers through a unified digital platform. It streamlines enrollment, electronic benefits verification, e-prior authorization, and payment/affordability support while managing pharmacy fulfillment and patient support services. The platform also provides manufacturers with actionable data and insights on patient journeys and brand performance, driving faster, more reliable medication access. Lead Site Reliability Engineer 🔥 46 minutes ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $123k - $154k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior ⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) AWS Azure Cloud Docker Google Cloud Platform Prometheus Ruby Ruby on Rails Terraform Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume for this job Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Designs, builds, and maintains reliable, scalable software systems supporting Ruby on Rails applications
Embeds reliability, performance, and operational best practices into application code and development workflows
Owns DevOps practices including CI/CD reliability, deployment strategies, and release safety
Leads incident response, debugging, and root cause analysis across application and platform layers
Implements and evolves observability (logging, metrics, tracing) within application and service code
Partners with engineering teams on architecture, capacity planning, and technical standards 🎯 Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience in software engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles (Required)
Cloud platform certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure) (Preferred)
SRE or DevOps-focused certifications (Preferred)
5+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles (Required)
Hands-on experience building and operating Ruby on Rails applications in production (Required)
Experience in owning production incidents and application-level reliability (Required)
Experience in high-growth or scaling engineering organizations (Preferred)
Experience working in regulated or customer-impact–sensitive environments (Preferred)
Knowledge of Ruby on Rails application architecture and production operations; software reliability engineering principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets); and modern DevOps and CI/CD practices (Required)
Knowledge of security and compliance considerations in production systems (Preferred)
Strong software engineering skills (Ruby and/or comparable backend languages) (Required)
Debugging and performance optimization of production applications skills (Required)
CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release tooling skills (Required)
Monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, etc.) skills (Required)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) skills (Preferred)
Containerization and orchestration (Docker) skills (Preferred)
Ability to write production-quality code that improves system reliability (Required)
Ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence design decisions (Required)
Ability to troubleshoot complex, cross-system failures (Required)
Ability to mentor engineers on operational ownership and reliability practices (Preferred)
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Hard Skills & Tools

Ruby on RailsCI/CDDevOpssoftware reliability engineeringdebuggingperformance optimizationmonitoringobservabilityInfrastructure as Codecontainerization

Soft Skills

collaborationmentoringtroubleshootinginfluencing design decisionsbalancing speed of delivery with system health

Certifications

cloud platform certificationsSRE certificationsDevOps certifications