Freenome · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Reliability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$131K/yr - $201K/yr
5+ years expFreenome is a company focused on developing critical systems for healthcare, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Reliability to join their Site Reliability Engineering team. The role involves designing and operating observability and incident management systems, ensuring reliability in cloud-based production environments, and collaborating with various engineering teams to improve operational practices.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsOncologyPersonal Health
Responsibilities
Define and implement observability practices (metrics, traces, dashboards, logs, alerts) for production systems
Partner with product, engineering, and lab teams to develop and maintain incident response playbooks and escalation procedures
Partner with engineering teams to define SLIs/SLOs and establish error budgets
Participate in on-call rotation for production systems, champion a focus on automation and self-healing
Contribute to production deployment and change-management processes that meet FDA and compliance requirements
Automate operational tasks, reducing manual intervention
Contribute to production systems and designs with the goal of improving reliability
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage and deploy team owned infrastructure and subsystems
Help build out the SRE practice
Work closely with engineering, product, and lab teams to understand service reliability needs
Partner with TPMs, RA/QA, and compliance stakeholders to align operational practices with regulatory requirements
Participate in cross-functional incident reviews and postmortems
Share knowledge and document operational standards for consistency and onboarding
Design and run fire drills / tabletop exercises as well as disaster recovery exercises
Model Freenome’s values and principles in your work and interactions
Promote a collaborative, reliable engineering culture across product, infra, and lab engineering teams
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational standards
Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and psychological safety
Independently drive reliability improvements in scoped systems or services
Provide mentorship to peers on observability, incident management, and operational best practices
Help build and evolve Freenome’s reliability practices and contribute to team strategy discussions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
5+ years in software engineering or Infra/DevOps/SRE roles (Python or Go are what we currently use)
Experience deploying cloud infrastructure via automation (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep/ARM, etc.)
Incident management experience in cloud/software engineering as well as familiarity with incident management platforms (e.g., Incident.io, ServiceNow, Opsgenie, Pagerduty, etc.)
Hands-on experience operating production workloads in cloud environments
Familiarity with Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, or EKS)
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in distributed systems
Experience with observability platforms (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Ability to define and implement metrics, dashboards, and alerting
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and own technical outcomes
Strong understanding of cloud Infrastructure and Networking architectures and automation
Preferred
Experience supporting regulated environments (healthcare, biotech, financial)
Familiarity with compliance-driven change management and release processes (FDA, HIPAA)
Knowledge of CI/CD deployment strategies and change automation
Experience with both GCP and Azure cloud platforms
Interest in mentorship and system reliability practices at scale
Benefits
Equity
Cash bonuses
A full range of medical, financial, and other benefits
Company
Freenome
Freenome is a biotechnology company developing blood tests for early cancer detection to improve access to routine screening.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.53BKey Investors
RocheExact SciencesS32
2025-12-04Acquired
2025-11-17Corporate Round· $75M
2025-08-06Corporate Round· $50M
Leadership Team
Aaron Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
Charles Roberts
Co-Founder
Recent News
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