Site Reliability Engineer III

Vida Health; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida Health is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join our fully remote Enablement Team. You’ll modernize and scale infrastructure, own production systems, and collaborate with engineering across multiple squads.

Key focus areas include Terraform, GKE, Cloud SQL, Datadog, Python, and GitHub Actions, with emphasis on observability, reliability, and security for our January enterprise launches. We are seeking an experienced engineer who can drive reliability and efficiency across a growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience with production ownership.
• Deep Terraform experience across environments.
• Strong GCP skills: GKE, Cloud SQL, IAM, networking, load balancing, and cost management.
• Production Kubernetes experience with autoscaling and resource management.
• Experience building monitoring with Datadog or Cloud Monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
• Ability to explain infrastructure decisions to non-specialists.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate Terraform into a clean, well-documented structure with conventions for state, modules, code review, and CI checks.
• Normalize environments; improve build/deploy automation in GitHub Actions; add drift detection and alerting.
• Apply overdue patches and upgrades across Cloud SQL databases and runtimes.
• Right-size compute and database workloads for growth; optimize connection pooling and scaling.
• Evaluate Kubernetes architecture; consider multi-cluster setup.
• Improve monitoring and observability with Datadog and Cloud Monitoring.
• Design observability access for contractors while protecting PHI.
• Retire legacy infrastructure and tooling.
• Build repeatable runbooks, on-call rotation, escalation docs.
• Support infrastructure readiness for January 1 enterprise launches.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Skills

SRE ownership

DevOps

Production systems

Terraform expertise

GCP expertise

Kubernetes

Monitoring & observability

Python scripting

Cross-team communication

Cloud cost management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Cloud SQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

IAM

Networking & load balancing

Datadog

Cloud Monitoring

Python

GitHub Actions

Django

Airflow

Job description

About Us

At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.

About Us

At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.

Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vida's team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health.

By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. It's trusted by Fortune 100 companies, major national payers and large providers to enable their employees to live their healthiest lives.

Vida has been operating and growing for years, and our infrastructure reflects that. We run on GCP with a production GKE cluster hosting around 50 workloads, from Django applications to scheduled Airflow jobs. Our data layer includes Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Redis, and Firestore. Our infrastructure is defined in two Terraform repositories, one for core GCP infrastructure and one for our data platform, and both have grown across many contributors over time. Until now, our infrastructure has been managed by backend engineers with deep infrastructure experience, and this role adds our first dedicated SRE to that group.

You'll be Vida's first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You'll join the Enablement Team, which owns the platform and tooling our Engineering Teams build on. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the team's Lead Engineer, who sets technical direction and will mentor you. This is a fully remote role with no time zone restrictions.

You'll modernize, consolidate, and scale our infrastructure as Vida takes on a wave of new enterprise contracts starting January 1. You'll also help shape what SRE looks like at Vida going forward.

Repsonsibilities

• Consolidate our Terraform, which has grown into inconsistent patterns across our infrastructure and data repositories, into a clean, well-documented structure the whole team can work in. Establish conventions for state management, module structure, code review, and CI checks.
• Normalize environments, improve build and deploy automation in GitHub Actions, and add drift detection and alerting.
• Apply overdue patches and upgrades across our Cloud SQL databases and application runtimes.
• Right-size compute and database workloads for growth, including connection pooling and scaling improvements for high-traffic services.
• Evaluate our Kubernetes architecture as we grow, including whether and when to move to a multi-cluster setup.
• Improve monitoring and observability in Datadog and Cloud Monitoring so we catch issues before they become incidents.
• Design observability access for contractors and external partners that gives them the visibility they need while keeping protected health information out of view.
• Retire legacy infrastructure and tooling that has been replaced but not yet decommissioned.
• Build repeatable operational processes, including runbooks, an on-call rotation, and escalation documentation.
• Support infrastructure readiness for Vida's January 1 enterprise launches.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with real ownership of production systems.
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience, including structuring modules and managing state across environments.
• Strong working knowledge of GCP, including GKE, Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), IAM, networking and load balancing, and cost management.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including autoscaling, resource management, and judgment about what belongs in the cluster versus outside it.
• Hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, and dashboards with tools like Datadog or Cloud Monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and disciplines, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-specialists.

Preferred

• Experience as an early or first SRE hire.
• Experience refactoring or consolidating a large, organically grown Terraform codebase.
• Experience improving observability from a less mature baseline.
• Experience in a HIPAA-regulated or other compliance-driven environment.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience running Django applications or Airflow in production on Kubernetes.
• Experience designing or migrating to multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures.

$175,000 - $185,000 a year

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