Site Reliability Engineer III
Vida, a virtual obesity care provider, is hiring its first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer to own and modernize its GCP-based infrastructure: consolidating Terraform, scaling GKE and Cloud SQL, improving Datadog/Cloud Monitoring observability, and building on-call and operational processes ahead of enterprise launches.
- Compensation
- $175K–$185K / yr
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree at a minimum
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with real ownership of production systems
- Deep hands-on Terraform experience, including structuring modules and managing state across environments
- Strong working knowledge of GCP, including GKE, Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), IAM, networking and load balancing, and cost management
- Production Kubernetes experience, including autoscaling and resource management
- Hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, and dashboards with tools like Datadog or Cloud Monitoring
- Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation
- Comfortable working across multiple teams and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-specialists
- Authorized to work in the U.S. (no visa sponsorship available)
Nice to have
- Experience as an early or first SRE hire
- Experience refactoring or consolidating a large, organically grown Terraform codebase
- Experience improving observability from a less mature baseline
- Experience in a HIPAA-regulated or other compliance-driven environment
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience running Django applications or Airflow in production on Kubernetes
- Experience designing or migrating to multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures
Full description
ABOUT US
At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.
Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vida's team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health.
By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. It's trusted by Fortune 100 companies, major national payers and large providers to enable their employees to live their healthiest lives.
Vida has been operating and growing for years, and our infrastructure reflects that. We run on GCP with a production GKE cluster hosting around 50 workloads, from Django applications to scheduled Airflow jobs. Our data layer includes Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Redis, and Firestore. Our infrastructure is defined in two Terraform repositories, one for core GCP infrastructure and one for our data platform, and both have grown across many contributors over time. Until now, our infrastructure has been managed by backend engineers with deep infrastructure experience, and this role adds our first dedicated SRE to that group.
You'll be Vida's first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You'll join the Enablement Team, which owns the platform and tooling our Engineering Teams build on. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the team's Lead Engineer, who sets technical direction and will mentor you. This is a fully remote role with no time zone restrictions.
You'll modernize, consolidate, and scale our infrastructure as Vida takes on a wave of new enterprise contracts starting January 1. You'll also help shape what SRE looks like at Vida going forward.
Repsonsibilities:
- Consolidate our Terraform, which has grown into inconsistent patterns across our infrastructure and data repositories, into a clean, well-documented structure the whole team can work in. Establish conventions for state management, module structure, code review, and CI checks.
- Normalize environments, improve build and deploy automation in GitHub Actions, and add drift detection and alerting.
- Apply overdue patches and upgrades across our Cloud SQL databases and application runtimes.
- Right-size compute and database workloads for growth, including connection pooling and scaling improvements for high-traffic services.
- Evaluate our Kubernetes architecture as we grow, including whether and when to move to a multi-cluster setup.