SRE – Backend Engineer

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SRE / Backend Engineer managing production reliability and performance for AI healthcare assistant. Work with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure and improve developer experience.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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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