Job Application for Site Reliability Engineer at Ethos Life Back to jobs New Site Reliability Engineer Bangalore, India Apply About Ethos Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
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the Role The Ethos SRE group is looking for a SRE Engineer to collaborate with other teams to improve service reliability, automation and observability and improve their application maturity, reliability, and production readiness. In this role, you will create new infrastructure and support tools, help other teams debug issues, and act as advisors regarding production readiness when new services are being designed and brought online. The person in this role will exhibit good mentoring and coding skills as well as the ability to solve complex problems related to reliability . This role also requires good interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate other teams to adopt best practices concerning reliability. Duties and
Responsibilities: Collaborate with other engineering teams to enhance the reliability and performance of applications, up to and including submitting PRs to their codebases with improvements Assist with automation, continuous integration and delivery of applications and configurations Assist other teams with designing solid foundations and best practices around running services in production environments Assist other teams implementing infrastructure level dependencies Help other teams identify, design, and monitor proper service-level indicators (SLI) and service-level objectives (SLO) Design and implement cross company resilient and reliable tools, resources, infrastructure and processes
Qualifications and Skills: 4+ years of full time software engineering experience in relevant role (Backend SWE / SRE / DevOps / Infrastructure / Operations) Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, testing, etc. Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written Strong interpersonal skills A strong desire to remove any toil from a system Preferred background in distributed systems and infrastructure Preferred engineering experience in TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS Preferred experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes operators Preferred knowledge of CI/CD systems Preferred experience with: Terraform, argoCD, Atlantis, GitHub Actions and DataDog #LI-Hybrid #LI-KP1 Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer.. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records. To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used, please refer to our California Candidate Privacy Notice . Recruitment Notice: Please be aware of recruitment scams. All legitimate communication from our team will only come from email addresses ending in @ethos.com or @getethos.com. We will never ask for payment, banking details, or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent us from a different email address, please treat it as fraudulent. Create a Job Alert Interested in building your career at Ethos Life? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email. Create alert Apply for this job * indicates a required field Autofill with MyGreenhouse First Name * Last Name * Preferred First Name * Email * Phone Country * Phone * Location (City) * Locate me Resume/CV * Attach Attach Dropbox Google Drive Enter manually Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf What company do you currently work at? * What is your current job title? * Are you willing to work onsite in Bangalore? * Select... Are/were you or anyone in your immediate family a government official? * Select... If yes to the above question, what role and what governmental organization? * Please confirm whether the government official mentioned above has any direct or indirect association with Ethos, its employees, partners, or business dealings. If yes, please provide details. * LinkedIn Profile Do you have 6+ years of hands-on technical experience building and architecting systems, with current proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript for infrastructure automation? * Select... Have you led the reliability and architecture of high-scale Kubernetes environments on AWS using Terraform and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD or Atlantis)? * Select... Do you have 4+ years of engineering team management experience in high-growth organizations, with a proven track record of scaling teams and navigating complex cross-functional dynamics? * Select... Have you designed or managed AI platform infrastructure, such as LLM gateways (routing/governance), MCP frameworks, or token cost optimization? * Select... We use Greenhouse’s AI-powered Talent Matching tool to compare your application against our job
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Location
Bangalore, India
Experience
4+ years
Total raised
$414.0M
Last stage
Series D
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