Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Beacon Biosignals is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform team, to help ensure the reliability, availability, and security of Beacon's cloud infrastructure that supports large-scale machine learning on terabytes of biosignal data. In this role, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining critical systems, such as the Kubernetes clusters that power our data scientists' hefty distributed numerical workloads, and observability infrastructure that makes it easy for users to monitor, trace, and identify bugs and resource utilization issues.
Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person office hubs available located in Boston, New York and Paris.
What success looks like:
Design and implement infrastructure as code solutions that improve reliability, security, and maintainability of our cloud infrastructure
Lead and execute major infrastructure initiatives including cluster upgrades, security improvements, and architectural changes
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable teams to deploy safely and efficiently
Improve observability across our systems through enhanced monitoring, logging, and alerting
Participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts when issues arise
Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and performance
Maintain and enhance our security posture through infrastructure hardening and automation
Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and incident response procedures
What you will bring:
Strong experience with Kubernetes administration, including cluster management, security, and troubleshooting
Proven track record implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, particularly with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or ArgoCD
Solid understanding of container technologies and build processes, especially Docker
Strong cloud provider (e.g. AWS) knowledge including networking, security, and infrastructure services; experience with Azure is a plus
Experience with incident response and on-call responsibilities in a production environment
Deep experience with Linux systems administration and debugging; familiarity with Windows Server environments is a plus
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Typescript etc.)
Understanding of security and networking concepts including OAuth2/OIDC, DNS, TLS, TCP/UDP, etc
Approximate experience: Bachelor's degree + 5-8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or other similar professional experience.
The base salary range for this role is $170,000 – $190,000. Salary ranges are determined using current market compensation data for this role and adjusted based on experience, skills, and location. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO, and other benefits.
At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.