Principal Site Reliability Engineer

USA-MiniMed Distribution Corp. 1018; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

MiniMed Distribution Corp. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability, scale, and performance of a global AWS-based healthcare platform. The role emphasizes HIPAA compliance, HITRUST standards, and cybersecurity, with a focus on automated, self-healing environments.

You will collaborate with Core Engineering to develop cloud-native microservices and CI/CD guardrails, ensuring 24x7 availability and secure data handling for life-critical applications.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with at least 5 years in relevant roles.
• Experience operating platforms within a regulated healthcare environment (HIPAA, SOC2, FDA) is preferred.
• Strong AWS architecture and security posture for cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, scale, and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Champion automation and infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, GitOps).
• Build telemetry and observability using NewRelic, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch.
• Lead incident responses and postmortems with RCA to drive remediation.
• Ensure data security and compliance audits for PHI-containing stores.

Skills

AWS architecture

SRE/DevOps

HIPAA compliance

Container orchestration (ECS)

Python/Go/Bash scripting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced degree

Tools

CloudFormation

NewRelic

CloudWatch

OpenSearch

GitOps

Docker

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 Oct 2026

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will own the end-to-end reliability, scale, and performance of our global healthcare platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role bridges the gap between software engineering and systems operations, with a hyper-focus on maintaining HIPAA compliance, HITRUST standards, and cybersecurity frameworks.

You will architecture automated, self-healing platforms that ensure our life-critical applications remain highly available 24x7.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Regulated Infrastructure Management: Design, scale, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS. Ensure all underlying architecture aligns with necessary security protocols.
• Automation & IaC: Eliminate manual operational tasks. Champion GitOps practices by treating infrastructure exclusively as code using tools like CloudFormation.
• Observability & Alerting: Build and mature deep telemetry frameworks using NewRelic, CloudWatch and OpenSearch to actively trace application health and catch system regressions before they hit patient care workflows.
• Incident Response & Postmortems: Lead high-severity incident responses as an Incident Manager. Lead Blameless Postmortems and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to drive long-term engineering remediations.
• Data Security & Compliance Audits: Ensure technical safeguards are enforced across AWS data stores containing Protected Health Information (PHI). Support compliance engineering teams by generating data encryption evidence and access logs for regulatory audits.
• Developer Enablement: Co-design cloud-native microservices alongside our Core Engineering teams, building automated CI/CD guardrails that allow developers to deploy code safely and autonomously.

Required Knowledge and Experience

Requires a Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Have Qualifications

• Advanced AWS Expertise: Deep architectural knowledge of core AWS services, including networking (VPC), computing (EC2, ECS), IAM permission isolation, and data layers (RDS, DynamoDB).
• Experience: 5+ years of dedicated experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps supporting production workloads at scale.
• Healthcare Domain Mastery: Direct experience operating platforms within a regulated environment subject to HIPAA, SOC2, or FDA medical device software regulations (IEC 62304).
• Container Orchestration: Heavy production experience configuring and troubleshooting containerized workloads via Amazon ECS.
• Coding Proficiency: Comfortable writing robust systems tooling or automation scripts in Python, Go, or Bash.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package

At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):138,000.00 - $234,000.00

For roles located in California, Seattle WA, Washington DC, Boston MA, and New York City, the salary range is $153,000.00 - $261,000.00 USD.

Actual compensation may vary based on factors including experience, education, certifications, skills, market conditions, internal equity, and geographic location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for other