Staff Site Reliability Engineer, SRE

Sprinter Health

Staff Site Reliability Engineer building and improving infrastructure for healthcare delivery systems. Responsible for reliability, security, and scalability in a high-growth healthcare startup environment.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $160,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and improve the infrastructure that powers Sprinter’s patient care, clinician operations, internal tooling, and partner-facing systems
Improve reliability across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and incident response
Raise the security baseline across cloud infrastructure, access controls, secrets management, identity, and operational workflows
Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and related tooling
Automate manual infrastructure and operational processes through scripting, tooling, and platform improvements
Partner with engineering teams to improve system architecture, deployment practices, monitoring, logging, and alerting
Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, application, data, and operational boundaries
Help define reliability, security, and infrastructure standards that allow Sprinter to scale without creating brittle systems
Support incident response practices, postmortems, operational readiness, and continuous improvement across engineering
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between reliability, security, speed, and simplicity in a fast-moving startup environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

Spent 8+ years in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, or related technical roles
Led high-impact infrastructure, reliability, platform, or security projects end to end with minimal oversight
Built and operated production systems in cloud environments, ideally AWS and/or GCP
Worked deeply with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
Improved observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices across engineering teams
Automated infrastructure, deployment, or operational workflows using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or TypeScript
Improved cloud security, access management, secrets management, networking, or operational controls
Troubleshot production issues across application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment layers
Worked in environments where reliability, security, ambiguity, and speed all matter
Made technical decisions that balanced immediate business needs with long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful pre-IPO equity
Medical, dental, and vision plans 100% paid for you and your dependents
Flexible PTO + 10 paid holidays per year
401(k) with match
16-week parental leave policy for birthing parent, 8 weeks for all other parents
HSA + FSA contributions
Life insurance, plus short and long-term disability coverage
Free daily lunch in-office
Annual learning stipend
Relocation assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

site reliability engineeringplatform engineeringinfrastructure engineeringsecurity engineeringinfrastructure as codeTerraformscriptingPythonBashTypeScript

Soft Skills

leadershiptroubleshootingproblem-solvingcollaborationdecision-makingadaptabilitycommunicationcontinuous improvementoperational readinesspragmatic tradeoffs