SRE / Backend Engineer

Nabla; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Medical coverage

Unlimited PTO

Sick leave

Parental leave

Home office grant

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Nabla is seeking a Senior SRE/Platform Engineer to own production reliability and scale our on-call culture across a fast-paced, production-critical platform.

You will instrument every layer with monitoring and observability, drive the SRE roadmap from SLIs to chaos engineering, and collaborate with backend, ML, and frontend squads to embed reliability into deployments. This role emphasizes autonomy, strong coding fundamentals, and effective communication during incidents.

Qualifications

• Senior-level SRE or infrastructure experience in production-critical environments.
• Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Structured on-call with alerting, runbooks, post-mortems.
• Software engineering fundamentals: IaC, Terraform PRs, debugging incidents.
• Autonomy and ability to drive priorities.
• Clear communication with engineers and leadership, even during incidents.
• Bonus: Kubernetes, GCP tooling, PostgreSQL at scale, or healthcare security/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability across the full stack.
• Own and scale the on-call culture with runbooks and escalation.
• Instrument monitoring, alerting, and observability to surface issues.
• Drive the SRE roadmap with leadership on reliability investments.
• Make engineers faster via tooling and reduced toil.
• Collaborate across squads with back-end, ML, and front-end engineers.

Skills

SRE experience

Infrastructure

Backend engineering

On-call experience

Cloud familiarity

Terraform PRs

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About Nabla

We are a team of entrepreneurs, clinicians, and engineers committed to bringing back joy to the practice of medicine. We harness machine learning science to develop an AI assistant that restores the human connection at the heart of healthcare by streamlining clinical documentation.

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 – strengthen runbooks, sharpen escalation paths, and build incident response processes that grow with the team.
• Instrument everything – develop and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability so issues surface before users are impacted.
• Drive the SRE roadmap – work with the Platform squad and leadership to prioritize reliability investments from SLOs to chaos engineering.
• Make engineers faster – reduce toil, improve the developer experience, better tooling, clearer feedback loops, and smoother deployments.
• Collaborate across squads – partner with back‑end, ML, and front‑end engineers to embed reliability best practices into the build process.

Your DNA

• Strong, senior‑level experience in SRE, infrastructure, or back‑end engineering within fast‑paced, production‑critical environments.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered).
• Experience as part of a structured on‑call process – alerting policies, runbooks, incident post‑mortem, escalation flows.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals – maintainable infrastructure‑as‑code, reviewing Terraform PRs, debugging live incidents.
• Autonomy – identify priorities, drive to completion without micromanagement.
• Effective communication with engineers and leadership, including during incidents and outside regular hours.
• Bonus: Kubernetes, GCP‑native tooling (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub), PostgreSQL at scale, or security/compliance in a healthcare context.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• 100% individual coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Unlimited paid time off and 11 national holidays.
• Unlimited sick leave.
• Paid parental leave for new parents.
• Remote‑friendly – $1,500 grant for home office equipment.
• Full ownership of your time and schedule.

Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States and must be able to maintain authorization without employer sponsorship now or in the future. The Company is not able to sponsor, transfer, or extend employment‑based visas.