SRE / Backend Engineer

Nabla Technologies

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or back-end engineering in production-critical settings.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Familiarity with structured on-call processes including alerting policies and incident response.
  • Strong background in software engineering principles and practical experience in infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to prioritize and drive projects to completion autonomously.
  • Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across distributed teams, especially during incidents.
  • Bonus points for experience in Kubernetes, GCP-native tools, or compliance in healthcare.

Responsibilities

  • Own and ensure production reliability across all platform components.
  • Enhance the on-call culture, improving runbooks and escalation paths.
  • Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability to proactively catch issues.
  • Define and drive the SRE roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership.
  • Streamline developer experience by reducing operational toil and enhancing tooling.
  • Collaborate with various engineering teams to integrate reliability practices into development workflows.

Benefits

  • Work in a supportive and kind team environment focused on making healthcare better.
  • Flexible work culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Engage in regular physical activities during work hours.
  • Participate in team-building off-site events in exciting locations.
  • Enjoy a casual office atmosphere complete with snacks like chocolate and nuts.
Full Job Description
Your team

Our AI ambient documentation product is used by 100,000+ physicians across the US and EU, automatically generating clinical notes in real time during patient encounters and syncing them directly with EHR systems.

Product development at Nabla is organized into cross-functional squads, each owning a specific area end-to-end. You'll be joining the Platform squad, which owns the infrastructure and engineering foundations that the rest of the company builds on.

We process billions of tokens monthly, serve real-time APIs in high-stakes clinical environments, and handle hundreds of thousands of note syncs with EHR systems every week, at a scale that keeps growing.

As we scale, reliability engineering is becoming a first-class discipline within the team, and you'll have real ownership in defining how we operate and build for resilience.

What you'll do
  • Own production reliability - take meaningful accountability for the stability, robustness, and performance of our platform across the full stack
  • Own and scale the on-call culture - take what's already in place and bring it to the next level: strengthen our runbooks, sharpen escalation paths, and build incident response processes that can scale with the team
  • Instrument everything - develop and improve our monitoring, alerting, and observability stack so that issues surface before they reach users, and our engineers can diagnose them fast
  • Drive the SRE roadmap - work with the Platform squad and Engineering leadership to define and prioritize the reliability investments that matter most, from SLOs to chaos engineering
  • Make engineers faster - reduce toil and improve the developer experience: better tooling, clearer feedback loops, smoother deployments
  • Collaborate across squads - partner with back-end, ML, and front-end engineers to embed reliability best practices into how we build, not just how we operate


Your DNA
  • Demonstrates strong, senior-level experience in SRE, infrastructure, or back-end engineering, ideally within fast-paced, production-critical environments.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure experience considered if you're ready to learn a new stack)
  • You've been part of a structured on-call process: alerting policies, runbooks, incident post-mortem, escalation flows
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals - you write clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code and are as comfortable reviewing a Terraform PR as you are debugging a live incident
  • Autonomy is your default mode - you can identify what needs to be done, prioritize it yourself, and drive it to completion without being managed step by step
  • You communicate clearly and effectively with engineers and leadership across distributed teams, including during incidents, even outside regular working hours
  • Bonus: experience with Kubernetes, GCP-native tooling (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub), PostgreSQL at scale, or security/compliance in a healthcare context


Benefits

Just like we're dedicated to supporting doctors' well-being, ensuring yours is a top priority. We firmly believe that by prioritizing your well-being, we support you to excel in your work.

Here Are The Benefits You Get When Joining Nabla
  • Compensation and Equity: Competitive salary and stock options
  • Comprehensive Health Plans: 100% individual coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Time Off: Unlimited paid time off and 11 national holidays
  • Health Comes First: Unlimited sick leave
  • Parental Leave: Paid leave for new parents
  • Remote-friendly: $1,500 to purchase home office equipment
  • Trust & accountability: Full ownership of your time and schedule


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