Remote Senior SRE: Drive Scalable, Resilient Platforms

HealthEquity; United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

HSA contribution and match

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Gym and fitness reimbursement

Education and tuition assistance

Wellness program incentives

Job summary

HealthEquity is seeking an accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability for key services, drive architecture for resilience, and mentor teams. You will shape incident handling, SLOs, and on-call practices while applying AI to improve debugging, automation, and operational insights.

The role is remote, with onboarding activities at HealthEquity’s Trailhead program. Strong experience in cloud-native designs, high-availability systems, and incident management is

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure ownership or related disciplines.
• Advanced troubleshooting of distributed systems and performance tuning.
• Experience with cloud platforms and tooling (Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes/AKS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident management (Dynatrace, PagerDuty).
• Applying AI/ML tools to improve debugging, automation or insights.
• Strong coding/scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Go, Bash).
• Independent ownership of SRE decisions, incident management, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability improvements for critical services and influence teams on best practices.
• Drive complex reliability initiatives, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Design resilient, scalable systems with observability and recovery strategies.
• Participate in architecture reviews for operational scalability and resilience.
• Own SLOs, incident quality and production health across platforms.
• Balance delivery speed with risk and enhance operational controls.
• Mentor engineers in reliability engineering practices.

Skills

SRE ownership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

AI for debugging

Python scripting

Incident management

High availability

Leadership mentoring

Education

Degree in CS/IT/Engineering (plus)

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes/AKS

Dynatrace

PagerDuty

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

HealthEquity is seeking an accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability for key services, drive architecture for resilience, and mentor teams. You will shape incident handling, SLOs, and on-call practices while applying AI to improve debugging, automation, and operational insights.

The role is remote, with onboarding activities at HealthEquity’s Trailhead program. Strong experience in cloud-native designs, high-availability systems, and incident management is