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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Assured

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Tags

Site Reliability EngineeringSaaSTerraformAWSKubernetesObservabilitySLOsMonitoring & AlertingPostgreSQLIncident Response

About the role

Role Overview

Assured is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help build and run efficient, reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for its SaaS platform. You’ll work in a startup environment and take ownership of deploying and automating platform delivery at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Provision infrastructure and tooling to deliver the Assured platform, scaling existing products and launching new infrastructure to support new initiatives.
  • Build automated tooling for configuring and maintaining platform services with consistency and repeatability.
  • Design sustainable monitoring and scaling practices for platforms and services.
  • Collaborate across teams to improve observability across product areas.
  • Security and compliance: identify, recommend, and implement strategies aligned with security regulations and industry best practices.
  • Incident response and participate in on-call rotation.
  • Lead and mentor engineers through guidance, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Experience autonomously building and scaling high-quality products/environments from early stages to maturity.
  • Strong automation mindset with good judgment on when automation isn’t appropriate.
  • Initiative for solving important cross-cutting technical problems and coordinating with others.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable database solutions, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Passion for observability (SLOs, monitoring, alerting).
  • Experience working at scale with Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong engineering background and ability to operate with minimal oversight.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience improving observability platforms and processes across multiple product areas.
  • Startup environment experience.

About Assured

Assured modernizes the insurance industry by providing software to help insurers manage claims processing. Its platform includes self-service claim filing and backend capabilities such as fraud detection, supporting large-scale, technology-driven claims workflows for major insurers.

Scraped 7/30/2026