AKASA
Sr. Software Engineer, DevOps
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$220kDetected 82 days ago
GitElasticsearchAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsLLMsCybersecurityIncident ResponseTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Your focus will be on ensuring our infrastructure is reliable, observable, and easy to operate - with an emphasis on automation, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
- While incident response is part of the role, the primary focus is on proactive improvements: reducing operational toil, improving visibility into system behavior, and enabling product teams to move fast with confidence.
- You'll also contribute to monitoring and observability efforts, ensuring our systems are well-instrumented and that we can detect issues before they impact customers.
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Management: Build, manage, and optimize infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
- Monitoring & Observability: Create visualizations and alerts that provide actionable insights using tools like Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, and Sentry.
- Documentation: Capture knowledge in runbooks, setup guides, and architecture diagrams to support operational maturity.
- Collaboration: Partner with engineers across teams to drive adoption of DevOps and infrastructure best practices.
- Incident Participation: Participate in an on-call rotation and support incident response processes as needed.
Requirements
- Experience with metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, Sentry, or similar.
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and load balancing concepts.
- Observability: Experience with metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, Sentry, or similar.
- Programming Skills: 5+ years of experience with Python.
Nice to have
- AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure management.
Skills
- 5+ years of experience with Python.
- Linux Systems: Comfortable working with Linux-based environments and writing shell scripts.
- Communication: Strong collaboration skills with a focus on asynchronous, written communication.
- Documentation: Commitment to clear, comprehensive documentation and process standardization.
- Initiative: Self-starter mindset with a proactive approach to solving operational challenges.
- Version Control: Skilled in Git/GitHub-based workflows.
- Nice to haves
- Cloud Experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure management.
- Networking Fundamentals: Familiarity with TCP/IP, DNS, routing, and load balancing concepts.
- Security: Understanding of cloud and infrastructure security best practices.
- Performance Tuning: Experience tuning application or infrastructure performance in production environments.
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
Compensation
- Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $180,000-$220,000 + Equity.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
- The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition.
Benefits
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone/internet reimbursement
- Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $180,000-$220,000 + Equity.
- If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at recruiting@akasa.com.
- At AKASA, our mission is to build the future of healthcare with AI.
- As the leading provider of generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle, we help health systems comprehensively capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey.
- By empowering health systems to streamline their operations, they can focus on what matters most - delivering quality patient care.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative.
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