Experienced Site Reliability Engineer - Transforming Diabetes Care through Innovative Technology and Cloud Infrastructure

Join Virta Health's Mission to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Virta Health is on a groundbreaking mission to transform diabetes care and reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic. With a strong foundation in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery, we're changing the way people manage their health. Having raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, we're partnering with major health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and live diabetes-free. Our goal is ambitious: to reverse diabetes in 100 million people.

About the Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Infrastructure team at Virta, you'll play a critical role in building the foundation that enables our company to move quickly while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. You'll be at the forefront of defining and driving our observability and reliability strategy as we continue to grow and innovate.

Key Projects and Responsibilities

• Improving our metrics strategy and developing tooling to track team/service health, enabling data-driven decisions.
• Enhancing system observability, reliability, and efficiency using a combination of off-the-shelf technology and internal tools developed in Python and Go.
• Building products to simplify service management and implementation for developers, ensuring standardization and security best practices.
• Improving incident readiness with better tooling and hygiene practices, such as game days.
• Collaborating with feature development teams to enhance scalability and reliability through analysis, observability improvements, toil reduction, capacity planning, and load testing.
• Developing testing infrastructure to improve application quality and speed up development.

Your Impact as a Site Reliability Engineer

As an SRE at Virta, you'll be responsible for:

• Evangelizing SRE best practices across engineering to ensure high availability and performance of our cloud infrastructure.
• Supporting infrastructure and product teams in analyzing and enhancing scalability, reliability, and observability of our containerized systems.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure automation to manage and scale standardized infrastructure.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives within the team and across the engineering organization.
• Mentoring peers to become great developers through best practices and technical guidance.
• Collaborating with our InfoSec team to ensure compliance requirements are implemented in the software development lifecycle.
• Providing technical support and troubleshooting infrastructure-related issues.

90-Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you to:

• Teach and inspire other engineering team members through knowledge sharing, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Propose and implement one or more process improvements related to reliability and observability.

Must-Haves

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure automation using Kubernetes, with bonus experience in Anthos on GKE.
• Proven expertise in developing and managing non-trivial services using GoLang or Python.
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security and compliance practices, particularly HIPAA and HITRUST.
• Strong experience implementing observability for containerized applications.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience mentoring junior engineers.

Our Values-Driven Culture

At Virta, our company values drive our culture. You'll thrive if you:

• Put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally.
• Have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others.
• Prioritize positive impact over busy work.
• Have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table.
• Appreciate transparency and promote trust through open access to information.
• Are evidence-based and prioritize data and science.
• Take risks and rapidly iterate.

What We Offer

Virta Health offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. Our compensation structure is location-based, and for this role, the compensation range is between $145,885 and $188,409, commensurate with qualifications and experience. We also provide a dynamic and supportive work environment that fosters growth and innovation.

Why Join Us?

By joining Virta Health, you'll be part of a pioneering effort to transform healthcare and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. You'll have the opportunity to work with a talented team, develop your skills, and grow in your career. If you're passionate about using technology to drive positive change and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.

Security and Privacy

As part of your duties, you may come into contact with sensitive patient information governed by HIPAA. We'll provide you with the necessary security and privacy training to ensure that our patients' information remains confidential.

Ready to Apply?

If you believe you have what it takes to join our mission, submit your application without delay. We're keen to hear from talented candidates like you.