Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Your Impact on our Mission:
Zocdoc is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to make our distributed production systems more observable, reliable, and safe to change. Our platform connects patients, providers, and many interconnected services and integrations, so reliability depends on understanding the full path of a request—not just whether an individual service is running.
You’ll help build the observability foundations, automation, and engineering practices that allow Zocdoc to move quickly without sacrificing safety. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and integration points in AWS, partnering closely with product engineering teams to identify risks, improve operational visibility, and make the right behavior easier to build and operate.
You’ll enjoy this role if you are…
Passionate about observability and believe that teams can’t reliably operate what they can’t see
Experienced in integration-rich environments where APIs, third-party dependencies, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services create complex failure modes
Excited by the challenge of helping a fast-moving engineering organization ship quickly while keeping systems safe, diagnosable, and resilient
Motivated to turn operational knowledge into reusable platforms, automation, telemetry standards, and paved paths for engineering teams
Comfortable leading or supporting incident response, communicating clearly under pressure, and using blameless post-mortems to drive meaningful improvements
Curious about how systems behave in production and willing to investigate across application code, infrastructure, networking, and external dependencies
Collaborative, pragmatic, and able to build trust with engineers across numerous product development teams
Autonomous, individually accountable, and always looking for ways to reduce toil and improve the developer and operator experience
Your day to day is…
Designing, building, and operating observability for distributed services and integrations, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives
Improving end-to-end visibility across critical patient and provider workflows, including identifying gaps in instrumentation and making dependency health and integration failures easier to understand
Creating reliable, repeatable tooling and infrastructure through infrastructure as code, automation, CI/CD, and self-service patterns
Partnering with product engineering teams on reliability, scaling, performance, capacity, and failure-mode analysis for services and integrations
Helping teams establish actionable alerts and operational ownership so that on-call signals are timely, meaningful, and connected to a clear response path
Participating in the on-call rotation and incident response process, including serving as an incident commander when appropriate and driving follow-up work through completion
Analyzing and tuning systems, code, cloud resources, and networking for resilience, performance, and efficient operation
Strengthening deployment and change-management practices so teams can release frequently with appropriate safeguards, rollback paths, and feedback loops
Contributing to platform standards and reusable patterns for containerized workloads, service communication, secrets, routing, and production readiness
You’ll be successful in this role if you have…
5+ years of experience supporting consumer-facing web applications, APIs, or distributed production environments in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or closely related role
2+ years of on-call experience in a 24/7 cloud-based production environment, with a track record of participating in incident response and delivering durable remediation
Deep experience operating systems with many integrations, services, dependencies, or external APIs, and a practical understanding of how those relationships affect reliability
Demonstrated experience building or improving observability practices, including metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
2+ years of experience managing and supporting modern cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, along with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar container platforms
Proficiency in Python, Go, Ruby, Java, or a comparable language, and the ability to read and troubleshoot application code
Experience with infrastructure as code and automated delivery practices, such as Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, GitOps, or equivalent tools
Experience with edge and service networking technologies such as load balancers, reverse proxies, ingress controllers, web application firewalls, routing, rate limiting, or circuit breaking
A deep understanding of protocols and foundational networking concepts such as TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, and NTP
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain operational risk, incident findings, and technical tradeoffs to both engineers and partners
Experience working with sensitive data, privacy or compliance requirements, or regulated production environments is a plus, but not required.
Benefits:
Flexible work environment based in NYC
Unlimited Vacation
100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)
401(k) with employer funded match
Corporate wellness program with Wellhub
Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service)
Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement
Cell phone reimbursement
Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging
Zocdoc is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Salary ranges are determined through alignment with market data. Base salary offered is determined by a number of factors including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and skills. Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay and/or equity; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
NYC Base Salary Range
$180,000—$220,000 USD