Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the position

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers, offering employees access to various resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs. The company is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will have the opportunity to make a direct impact on people's lives by building reliable, scalable, and flexible systems. This position involves managing cloud resources, developing observability best practices, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage and orchestrate Cloud Resource (AWS) configuration using Infrastructure As Code (Terraform).
• Develop and govern Observability (Datadog) best practices for tracking platform performance and health trends.
• Create solutions that dynamically scale based on demand while maintaining flexibility.
• Provide strong and consistent communication updates on technical progress or blockers.
• Participate and respond to 24/7 on-call critical alerts.
• Maintain HIPAA, GDPR, SOC-2 compliance and general security.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2 years experience in DevOps.
• Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience on managing resources through Infrastructure As Code (Terraform).
• Container Orchestration (ECS or K8s) experience.
• Knowledge of Observability best practices across common cloud resources.
• Experience with shell scripting for *nix systems.
• Experience with Networking for web applications.
• Effective at communicating ideas through writing and diagramming.
• Comfortable working with a distributed development and ops team.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with AWS: ECS and cloud hosting.
• Experience with Gitlab: CI/CD.
• Knowledge of Python: Django, Flask, aiohttp.
• Experience with Data: PostgreSQL, Redis.
• Experience with Monitoring: Datadog and Sentry.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, Packer.

Benefits

• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance.
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform.
• Generous Time Off.
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days.
• Parental Leave Policy.
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot.
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter.
• Professional Development Stipend.
• 401k.
• Financial Planning Benefit through Origin.
• Annual Wellness Stipend.
• New Hire Stipend for work-from-home setup costs.
• Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement.