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Ethos
About Ethos
Ethos (Nasdaq: $LIFE) 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.
About the role
Ethos is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to serve as a technical leader for our SRE organization in the US. In this role, you will help set the technical direction for how Ethos builds, runs, and scales production systems, from our core AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to the internal platforms and toolchains that power our AI initiatives.
This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with organization-wide scope. You will design and build critical infrastructure yourself, lead cross-team initiatives from conception to delivery, and raise the reliability bar across engineering by partnering closely with product teams, up to and including submitting PRs to their codebases. You will work alongside SRE leadership in the US and Bangalore to shape the roadmap, and you will be a go-to technical authority for reliability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Set Direction: Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for reliability, infrastructure, and platform tooling, in partnership with SRE and engineering leadership and aligned with company OKRs.
- Architecture: Lead the design of complex, cross-cutting infrastructure systems. Author and review technical specifications and architecture proposals to ensure consistency, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- Influence Without Authority: Motivate product engineering teams to adopt reliability best practices, and act as a trusted advisor on production readiness when new services are designed and brought online.
- Mentorship: Grow the technical skills of SREs across our US and Bangalore teams through design reviews, pairing, and code review, and help raise the hiring bar by participating in interviews.
Reliability & Performance Engineering
- Service Standards: Establish the framework for how teams define, measure, and act on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Help teams instrument and monitor them.
- Incident Excellence: Serve as a senior technical leader during high-severity incidents. Drive a culture of rigorous, blameless post-mortems and ensure follow-up work actually reduces recurrence.
- Resilience: Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failure-mode testing so our systems degrade gracefully and recover quickly.
- Observability: Evolve our monitoring and alerting strategy so failures are detected before they impact customers and on-call is sustainable.
Infrastructure & AI Platform Tooling
- Scalable Systems: Design, build, and operate our AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Atlantis).
- AI Gateway & Governance: Architect and build governed gateways for AI model routing, including model access controls, audit trails, and secure data connectors (such as MCP) that prevent sensitive data exposure.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure infrastructure, including AI prototyping environments, meets security and regulatory requirements through automated scanning, PII guardrails, and scoped data access.
Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- FinOps: Lead initiatives to optimize cloud spend across the organization, including right-sizing, spot instance utilization, and cost attribution.
- AI Cost Management: Design metering and budgeting for LLM token usage, and build cost-aware routing so workloads use the most efficient model for the job.
- Visibility: Establish clear cost metrics and partner with engineering teams on architectures that are both performant and cost-effective.
Developer Productivity
- Paved Roads: Build internal tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms that make the reliable path the easy path for product engineering teams.
- Toil Elimination: Identify systemic sources of toil across engineering and automate them away.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience: 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience in relevant roles (SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Backend SWE), including significant time operating production systems at scale.
- Staff-Level Impact: A track record of leading complex, multi-team infrastructure or reliability initiatives from ambiguity to delivery, and of influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team.
- Software Engineering: Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or TypeScript, and a commitment to engineering best practices: design patterns, code reviews, and testing.
- Cloud & Platform Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Experience building Kubernetes operators is a plus.
- Systems Knowledge: Strong understanding of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling such as DataDog.
- Reliability Practice: Hands-on experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, and running effective post-mortems.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication. You can write a clear design doc, explain trade-offs to executives, and build consensus across teams.
- Mindset: A strong desire to remove toil from systems, and the judgment to balance reliability, velocity, and cost.
Nice to Have
- Experience building or operating LLM toolchains, such as AI gateways, model routing (e.g., Bedrock, Anthropic), and governance frameworks, including PII scanning and audit trails for model interactions.
- Demonstrated experience leading cloud cost optimization or building usage metering systems.
- Experience in regulated industries (insurance, fintech, healthcare) or with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams.
Our Tech Stack
- Languages: TypeScript, Golang, Python
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Atlantis
- Observability & Tools: DataDog, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL
- AI Platform: Anthropic, Bedrock, MCP
The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000 - $275,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.
You can find further details of our US benefits at
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.
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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.
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Systems Observability Specialist
Bright Vision Technologies
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: Systems Observability Specialist
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $135,000–$155,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary:
We are looking for an Systems Observability Specialist to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack — from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows — with a strong focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI. The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and can translate noisy telemetry into actionable insight for both engineers and business stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
- Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Go, Python, or Java.
- Experience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
- Strong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles.
- Experience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
- Solid grasp of Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scale.
- Contributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open-source projects.
- Familiarity with eBPF-based observability tooling.
- Experience driving observability cost optimization initiatives.
- Exposure to regulated environments with audit-grade logging requirements.
How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to or contact us at (908)676-4399. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at .
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.
BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
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Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
3M Consultancy
This is a remote position.
- Manage AWS production environments across Australia and the United States using Terraform.
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to identify and resolve issues early.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment processes, including automated health checks and rollbacks.
- Ensure PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS databases remain reliable, secure, and optimized for performance.
- Manage database backups, restoration procedures, query optimization, and scaling.
- Develop, document, and regularly test disaster recovery procedures.
- Monitor infrastructure capacity and prepare systems for increasing customer demand.
- Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability and performance.
- Manage infrastructure maintenance, server updates, security patches, and vulnerability fixes.
- Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions.
- Improve infrastructure automation and operational processes without disrupting ongoing development.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience managing AWS production environments for SaaS applications.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and rollback procedures.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability tools.
- Strong PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS experience, including performance tuning, backups, restores, and scalability.
- Experience developing and testing disaster recovery plans, including RTO and RPO.
- Good understanding of AWS security, networking, access management, and infrastructure management.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, and production incident resolution.
- Ability to independently manage production infrastructure and take full technical ownership.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance standards.
- Experience working with managed-service providers or external support teams.
- Background supporting enterprise SaaS applications, particularly in industrial or supply chain environments.
- Previous experience as the primary or sole Platform/SRE Engineer.
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure across multiple regions.
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