
SRE – Backend Engineer
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year
About the role
- Own production reliability - accountability for the stability, robustness, and performance across the full stack
- Own and scale the on-call culture - enhance runbooks, escalation paths, and incident response processes that can scale
- Instrument everything - develop and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability stack
- Drive the SRE roadmap - define and prioritize reliability investments that matter most
- Make engineers faster - reduce toil and improve the developer experience
- Collaborate across squads - partner with engineers to embed reliability best practices into development processes
Requirements
- Strong, senior-level experience in SRE, infrastructure, or back-end engineering
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure experience considered if you're ready to learn a new stack)
- Participation in a structured on-call process: alerting policies, runbooks, incident post-mortem, escalation flows
- Strong software engineering fundamentals - writing clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code
- Autonomy in identifying priorities and driving tasks to completion
- Clear communication skills with engineers and leadership across distributed teams
- Bonus: experience with Kubernetes, GCP-native tooling (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub), PostgreSQL at scale, or security/compliance in a healthcare context
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SREinfrastructureback-end engineeringcloud infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codeKubernetesPostgreSQLGCP-native toolingalerting policiesincident post-mortem
Soft Skills
accountabilitycollaborationclear communicationautonomyprioritizationdriving tasks to completion