Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, SRE

at Diabetes Youth Families

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer, SRE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $148,200 - $222,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, DNS, EC2, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Ray, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Acton, United States

About the role

• Staff SRE at Insulet managing teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. Driving best practices in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on automation and modern technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the SRE team.
• Drive the implementation of best practices in reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead by example, demonstrating excellence in technical skills and problem-solving.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable, resilient, and efficient systems.
• Architect and implement infrastructure solutions that meet the requirements of high availability and performance.
• Drive the adoption of modern technologies and tools to improve system reliability and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for provisioning, deployment, and monitoring.
• Automate routine tasks to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify issues and prevent service disruptions.
• Lead incident response efforts, conducting post-mortem analysis, and implementing measures to prevent recurrence.
• Develop & Automate runbooks and playbooks to streamline incident resolution processes.
• Conduct capacity planning exercises to ensure systems can handle current and future loads.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system performance through tuning and optimization efforts.
• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement scalable architectures.
• Document system architectures, configurations, and procedures.
• Promote knowledge sharing within the team through technical presentations, workshops, and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in the field including 5+ Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Proven experience architecting and managing highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• In-Depth knowledge of AWS services including VPC, Lambda, IAM, ELB, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, WAF, X-Ray, and Route53 or GCP services including VPC, Cloud Functions, IAM, Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Stackdriver, API Gateway, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Cloud Armor, Cloud Trace, Cloud DNS
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off (PTO)
• And additional employee wellness programs