Senior Site Reliability Engineer

$175,000 - $230,000/Yr

Forbius ® - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

About the position

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Formation Bio, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the reliability and efficiency of drug development processes. This position focuses on enabling the organization to deliver reliable products swiftly, eliminating obstacles that hinder progress. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and domain experts to design and implement robust software infrastructure solutions that support the drug development platform. Your expertise in software development, automation, and observability will be vital in driving the company's mission to expedite the delivery of new treatments to patients.

Responsibilities

• Consult with Product Engineers on the development and deployment of secure, observable, reliable software.
• Design new solutions to fill gaps, and see them through from concept to implementation.
• Research, develop and maintain infrastructure services including load balancers, databases, and secrets management.
• Maintain IaaS cloud resources as well as hosted solutions in various operating environments including development, staging, and production.
• Author, review, maintain and optimize Terraform code, container images, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, shared services, and products.
• Write, review, and provide feedback on requirements and design documents as well as operating and maintenance procedures.
• Provide knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring for engineers on infrastructure and SRE fundamentals throughout the organization.
• Participate in a support rotation during business hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5-10 years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Administrator, Infrastructure or DevOps Engineer, or similar relevant experience focusing on infrastructure management and automation.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to effectively engage and work along stakeholders from diverse disciplines and varying levels of technical expertise.
• Experience managing or coordinating technical projects, including resource budgeting, estimates, tracking, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS (including ECS/Fargate, ALB, Lambda, RDS) and the full end-to-end process of modern software development in a containerized environment.
• Experience managing multiple shared COTS and FOSS software applications in a multi-tenant environment.
• Experience with Bash, CircleCI, Docker, HashiCorp Vault, Python, and networking (virtual or physical).
• Experience with performing advanced diagnostics and root cause analyses.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a regulated industry (especially pharmaceuticals or biotech) is a plus, but not required.
• Digital forensics experience is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $175,000 - $230,000.
• Equity options.
• Generous perks.
• Location flexibility.
• Comprehensive benefits package.