Site Reliability Engineer ll

Opportunity Overview: This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events. We are seeking an operational-focused Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to maximize the availability, performance, and resilience of our production healthcare systems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between AWS cloud infrastructure, MERN stack applications, and large-scale data workflows.

js/Python infrastructure tuning, and 40% on engineering automated solutions to eliminate operational toil.

What You’Ll Do

: Production Operations: Maintain the continuous uptime, scalability, and security of our AWS-hosted MERN applications and backend data architectures. Serverless Execution: Manage, optimize, and troubleshoot event-driven architectures running on AWS Lambda, focusing on cold-start mitigation, memory allocation, and execution timeouts. Data Pipeline Execution: Monitor scheduled PySpark data workflows, execute standard operating procedures (SOPs) for large-scale data ingestion, and rapidly triage, rerun, or patch failed data processing jobs.

Incident Management: Participate in a collaborative on-call rotation to rapidly triage, debug, and mitigate live application outages and data flow bottlenecks. Healthcare Compliance: Maintain strict HIPAA, SOC2, and HITRUST compliance profiles across all runtime environments, storage systems, and data pipelines handling Protected Health Information (PHI). Toil Elimination: Engineer automated workflows to eliminate repetitive tasks like manual data seeding, infrastructure provisioning, and routine PySpark pipeline recovery steps.

js event loops, PySpark job execution stages, driver/worker memory leaks, and data pipeline throughput anomalies. Post-Mortem Culture: Lead blameless post-mortems for operational and data processing failures, translating system crashes into permanent structural fixes. What you’ll need: SaaS Platform Experience: Minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience operating multi-tenant, cloud-hosted, or cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale.

AWS Cloud Engineering: Deep expertise operating AWS core services, specifically AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS/EKS, Amazon EMR or AWS Glue (for Spark), EC2, VPC networking, IAM permissions, and CloudWatch. js. , AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ), or stream processing frameworks.

js clustering. Database Administration: Practical experience managing, sharding, indexing, and optimizing production-grade MySQL DB Athena (RDS or self-hosted). Infrastructure as Code: Proven ability to deploy and maintain immutable infrastructure utilizing Terraform or OpenTofu.

Healthcare Experience: Minimum 1 year working within HIPAA-regulated environments. Direct experience securing data-at-rest and data-in-transit containing sensitive patient records is preferred. Education Experience: Minimum of 4 years of software/systems experience, with at least 1-2 years focused on live cloud operations and distributed data workflow management is preferred.

Crisis Management: Calm under pressure with a methodical approach to identifying and isolating PySpark driver OOM (Out of Memory) errors or data corruption during high-stress outages.