Staff SRE — Platform Reliability Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public

28 vacation days

Work from abroad up to 10 days/year

Health insurance

Pension scheme (bAV) with 40% subsidy

DoctoGrowth program

Mental health & coaching services

Urban Sports Club membership

Hybrid/workplace policy

Subsidized meals

Relocation support

Access to AI tools and training

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and scalability across 170+ apps, supporting 520,000 health professionals and 90 million patients. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional reliability initiatives, and partner with product teams to embed resilience early in development.

The role blends infrastructure, developer experience, and product engineering, requiring strong backend skills (Go/Python/Ruby) and cloud expertise in

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, platform eng, or infra in large multi-team setups.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience required.
• Strong containerization/orchestration (Kubernetes) experience.
• Implemented and operated SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in production.
• Experience managing on-call rotations and incident response.
• Background in systems engineering with Go/Python/Ruby.
• Proven leadership by influence across teams.
• Fluent English in written and spoken form.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale reliability initiatives across the platform including infra automation and observability.
• Improve incident detection, response, and postmortem analysis capabilities.
• Define and evolve SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across product teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve on-call experience and telemetry.
• Mentor senior engineers and drive reliability engineering across the company.
• Provide technical guidance to leadership and participate in architectural reviews.
• Partner with software teams to embed reliability practices early in development lifecycle.

Skills

SRE experience 8+ years

Cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure

Kubernetes

SLIs/SLOs/Error budgets

On-call management

Backend programming (Go/Python/Ruby)

Leadership through influence

English fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

ArgoCD

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and scalability across 170+ apps, supporting 520,000 health professionals and 90 million patients. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional reliability initiatives, and partner with product teams to embed resilience early in development.

The role blends infrastructure, developer experience, and product engineering, requiring strong backend skills (Go/Python/Ruby) and cloud expertise in