Senior Backend Engineer, Infrastructure

About the role

At Ro, we're building a new healthcare system from the ground up, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability. This role sits at the core of that effort, contributing to the reliability of our production systems and building tools that empower our engineers to ship safely and confidently.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement resilient infrastructure to support high availability at scale
• Build and contribute to developer tools that streamline deployment, monitoring, and recovery of systems
• Partner with engineering teams to bake best practices for reliability, resilience, and observability into services
• Automate infrastructure workflows using IaC and other cloud native tools
• Contribute to our culture of operational excellence, guiding engineers through reliability practices and raising the bar across the engineering org

Requirements

• Solid cross-functional communication, able to collaborate with product, platform, security, and other teams
• Strong software development skills, using Go, Python, or other modern programming languages
• An operational mindset that puts reliability and resilience as a core product requirement
• A mission-driven attitude, motivated by the opportunity to make healthcare better
• Experience operating distributed services in production
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Experience with observability practices, such as using metrics, logging, tracing in Datadog

Qualifications

• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO
• Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
• Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
• Pet insurance
• Student loan refinancing
• Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness

Skills

• Go, Python, or other modern programming languages
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform
• Observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Cloud native tools

Benefits

• Target base salary range: $182,300 to $220,000
• Competitive equity and benefits package

Pay

The target base salary for this position ranges from $182,300 to $220,000, in addition to a competitive equity and benefits package (as applicable).

Schedule

Not specified