Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Virta Health
$167.2-216k
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Diabetes reversal treatment
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Diabetes reversal treatment
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167.2-216k
Offers Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.
Role
Who you are
- Highly proficient in shipping backend code in high-quality production environments, with strong hands-on coding and automation expertise, and a deep understanding of reliability and production readiness practices
- Hands-on expertise with automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform modules preferred), ideally with experience in observability
- Experience designing and implementing highly observable, scalable systems — with a proven track record configuring AIOps / ML-based monitoring platforms — that support large numbers of users while reducing operational burden
- Applied and general AI fluency: ability to leverage AI/ML-assisted observability (e.g., anomaly detection, error-budget burn prediction) while also being comfortable with concepts like prompt engineering, operational chatbots, and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate incident response and reliability improvements
- Growth mindset and craftsmanship: ability to coach, mentor, and evangelize AI-first insights while continually improving engineering practices and following best practices
What the job involves
- 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:
- Implement an AI‑driven observability and metrics platform that automatically detects anomalies and highlights SLO risks, enabling product teams to make data‑driven decisions
- 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
- Engage with feature development teams in toil reduction exercises, capacity planning, load testing, SLO process, and other best practices — partnering with product teams to replace manual capacity planning with predictive/AI-driven scaling models and to codify self-healing runbooks that minimize toil
- Improving the velocity and quality of our developer platform and tooling
- General AI fluency desired: comfortable with concepts like prompt engineering, operational chatbots, and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate incident response and reliability improvements
- We are in the midst of re-defining our incident response tooling/strategy, improving test tooling, and developing a strategy to ensure all applications are performant and available
- Joining Virta would make you one of the key people defining and driving the future vision of what reliability and observability should look like
- Ship automation and tooling that reduces toil, with high-quality, well-structured code
- Design and codify self-healing workflows and guardrails to minimize toil and improve reliability
- Steward SLO dashboards enhanced with AI/ML-assisted insights, leveraging AIOps-style observability to surface anomalies, predict error-budget burn, and improve signal quality across golden signals
- Integrate load-testing into reliability engineering efforts, ensuring outcomes directly inform SLOs, scaling strategies, and capacity planning
- Partner with product teams to replace manual capacity planning with predictive/AI-driven scaling models and implement burn-rate based alerting
- Coach and mentor engineers; champion best practices and pragmatic reliability trade-offs
- 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
- Deliver a proof-of-concept for an AIOps initiative, demonstrating how a manual reliability or observability process can be transformed into automation to reduce toil and improve insight
Our take
Much of the care for type 2 diabetes has been based on control and prevention, rather than a direct reversal of the issue. Virta Health is changing that, providing patients with personalized treatment plans, virtual monitoring and patient care.
Instead of depending upon medication, which often needs to be increased over time, the company is tackling the problem at its root and taking a fundamentally different approach that is better for the patient, and more economical for insurers. Among enrolled patients in its clinical trial at one year, 60% achieved diabetes reversal.
While platforms like Vida Health also serve similar markets, the large number of prediabetic (88M) and diabetic (30M) Americans presents a significant opportunity for growth. Along with its significant funding round in 2021 fueling its efforts to expand the reach of its telehealth-powered diabetes reversal treatment. Positioning the company for widespread adoption and continued success in addressing this critical healthcare challenge.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$133m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $373m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment with ability to work from home
- Flexible work hours & time off policy
- Virta pays 99% of all employee health insurance premiums, and 75% for all dependents
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Enroll in the Virta treatment for free and give a discount to friends and family
- Internet, home office, learning & development stipends
- Employee Resource Groups like Parents of Virta, Ladies of Virta, and Virtans for DEI
- 401K and ROTH contribution opportunities
Company HQ
Civic Center, Denver, CO
Leadership
Sami Inkinen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. Co-founder of online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group.
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