Virta Health is on a mission to transform diabetes care and reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse type 2 diabetes through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and live diabetes-free. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100M.

As an SRE on the Infrastructure team at Virta, you will be building the foundation that will help our company move as fast as possible while meeting security and compliance requirements. Key projects for the team over the next two quarters include:

• Improving our metrics strategy and developing tooling to create accurate mechanisms of tracking team/service health that Product Development can use to make data-driven decisions with regards to planning.
• Enhancing system observability, reliability, and efficiency using off-the-shelf technology combined with internal tools developed in Python and Go to increase transparency and visibility into our systems as well as centralizing data.
• Building out more products for our Product Development teams like observability (SLOs, alerting, dashboards) modules to allow them to spin up an MVP out of the box.
• Improving incident readiness with better tooling and the right hygiene practices such as game days.

We are in the midst of re-defining what our reliability and observability strategy should be for our next stage of growth. Joining Virta would make you one of the key people defining and driving the future vision of what reliability and observability should look like.

Responsibilities

• Reduce toil by shipping tooling at a high velocity, while maintaining high quality, well-structured code
• Support product teams in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and observability of our systems
• Coach and mentor peers to become great developers and recommend best practices and tools

90 Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:

• Teach and inspire other engineering team members through knowledge sharing, pair programming, and giving feedback during code reviews
• Propose and implement one or more process improvements related to reliability and observability to make our engineering team even better

Must-Haves

• Highly proficient in shipping backend code in high quality production environments. We want this engineer to be able to have a strong understanding of reliability practices especially when it comes to production readiness.
• Highly proficient in working with Terraform modules, building and maintaining (preferably with experience around observability).
• Experience designing and implementing highly observable systems that have scaled to support large numbers of users, while also reducing operational burden
• Experience with building service-oriented, service-based or microservice architectures
• Embraces craftsmanship. Experience setting and following best practices
• Growth mindset

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
• You prioritize positive impact over busy work
• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
• You take risks and rapidly iterate

Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community and follow us on Linkedin to stay connected!

As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is [min of $164,996 - $185,388. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers. 

• Share this job
• Email
• Facebook
• Twitter