Staff Site Reliability Engineer

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $156k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Ethos

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Ethos is a life insurance provider offering a fast and convenient way for customers to apply for and receive life insurance coverage. Specializing in no-medical-exam policies, Ethos allows individuals to secure life insurance quickly, with coverage options ranging from term life for various durations to guaranteed whole life policies. The company emphasizes ease of use, providing online tools such as coverage calculators and educational resources, as well as customer and agent support. Ethos also offers additional benefits like estate planning aids as part of its insurance packages.

📋 Description

• Define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for reliability, infrastructure, and platform tooling • Lead design of complex, cross-cutting infrastructure systems and review technical specifications and architecture proposals • Motivate product engineering teams to adopt reliability best practices and advise on production readiness • Mentor SREs across US and Bangalore teams through design reviews, pairing, and code review • Establish frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and help teams instrument and monitor them • Serve as senior technical leader during high-severity incidents and drive blameless post-mortems • Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failure-mode testing • Evolve monitoring and alerting strategy • Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Atlantis • Architect governed AI gateways for model routing, access controls, audit trails, and secure data connectors • Ensure infrastructure meets security and regulatory requirements through automated scanning, PII guardrails, and scoped data access • Lead cloud cost optimization, LLM token metering and budgeting, and cost-aware model routing • Build internal tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms • Identify and automate systemic sources of engineering toil

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience in relevant roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Backend SWE), including significant time operating production systems at scale • Track record of leading complex, multi-team infrastructure or reliability initiatives from ambiguity to delivery and influencing technical direction beyond the immediate team • Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or TypeScript • Commitment to engineering best practices, including design patterns, code reviews, and testing • Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform • Strong understanding of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling such as DataDog • Hands-on experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, and running effective post-mortems • Excellent written and verbal communication • Ability to write clear design documents, explain trade-offs to executives, and build consensus across teams • Strong desire to remove toil from systems and judgment to balance reliability, velocity, and cost

🏖️ Benefits

• US benefits details available at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/ • Bonus, equity, and benefits are applicable but excluded from the listed base salary • Full-time employment • Remote work arrangement

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