Site Reliability Engineer

Boston, MA

PatientPing is a venture-backed health technology company based in Boston, MA that is transforming healthcare delivery. We are building a national network that connects providers with real-time notifications when their patients receive care anywhere, so that providers can better coordinate patient care. Our customers include hundreds of health systems, physician organizations, and post-acute care providers across the country. Our vision is bold – to build a national care coordination network that allows providers to put patients at the center of their care.

Job Description:

We are actively hiring a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer who wants to create something meaningful that will greatly improve people’s lives. This role is a unique opportunity for someone who not only wishes to architect and build superb systems, but also help evolve the Engineering department into an even more successful organization as the company scales. In this role you will work closely with the application development team to ensure the performance, capacity, and reliability of PatientPing’s systems. 

What You Will Do: 

•Contribute to the architecture of all new solutions, with an eye towards operational and scale considerations 

•Write automated scripts to monitor for current or incipient system stresses

•Help automate the deployment process of both custom and off-the-shelf components

•Continually look for opportunities to improve the efficiency and elegance of existing systems 

•Work with QA engineers to plan and execute stress testing and feed the results back into actionable scaling steps 

What You Need:

•A minimum of 5 years’ experience administering Linux systems 

•A minimum of 5 years’ experience installing, configuring, and maintaining complex software packages in a clustered environment 

•Three years’ experience writing automation scripts in a modern language (Python, Ruby, Java) 

•Three years administering virtualized environments 

•A deep knowledge of standard networking stacks 

•Experience with AWS or other public cloud provider 

What You Get: 

•Be on the ground floor of a rapidly growing company with many opportunities to expand the role and responsibilities 

•Have the autonomy to build something with a brilliant and enthusiastically supportive team

•Learn best practices from world class investors and advisors

•Become an expert on healthcare delivery system transformation

•Receive cash and equity compensation with health, dental, and other benefits