Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance by providing large insurers with the software solutions they need. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will build efficient, reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure and code, while leading and mentoring other engineers on the team.

Responsibilities:

• Provision infrastructure and tooling required to deliver the Assured platform, from scaling existing products to launching novel infrastructure to support entirely new products and initiatives
• Create automated tooling to configure and maintain our platform and services with an eye for consistency and repeatability
• Build sustainable methods for monitoring, managing, and scaling our platforms and services
• Work with various teams to improve observability in different product areas
• Identify, recommend, and implement strategies for complying with security regulations and industry best-practices
• Handle incident support and on call rotation
• Lead, mentor, and learn from other engineers on our growing team

Requirements:

• Experience in a start-up environment
• Expertise in deploying and automating the delivery of modern SaaS platforms at scale
• Ability to autonomously build and scale high-quality products and environments from early stages to maturity
• Ability to discern when automation isn't the best solution and present alternatives
• Initiative to identify and solve important problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues
• Ability to make others better through code reviews, thorough documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring
• Persistence in the face of roadblocks, dispatching them efficiently, pulling in others as necessary
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable database solutions, ideally with PostgreSQL
• Self-motivated, requiring minimal direction/oversight
• Passion for implementing and supporting observability platforms, SLOs, monitoring and alerting
• Experience working in a scaling environment with Terraform, AWS and Kubernetes
• Strong engineering background and history of designing systems