Waystar · 2 days ago
Sr. Specialist Site Reliability Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expWaystar is a company that helps providers simplify healthcare payments and improve financials through its innovative platform. The Site Reliability Engineering Specialist will support the engineering team by ensuring the reliability and performance of data licensing platforms, collaborating with various teams to enhance system observability and incident response.
FinanceHealth CarePaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Design and implement reliability solutions for data ingestion, processing, and delivery pipelines
Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for data licensing services and manage error budgets
Build automation for deployment, monitoring, and incident response
Enhance system observability through metrics, logging, and tracing
Develop and maintain dashboards and alerts to proactively detect and resolve issues
Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts
Conduct root cause analysis and drive post-incident improvements
Maintain runbooks and operational documentation
Partner with software and data engineers to embed reliability into system design
Contribute to blameless postmortems and reliability reviews
Share knowledge and mentor junior team members
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with data platforms, ETL pipelines, and distributed systems
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Experience with Python, Powershell, and other similar languages
Active use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques to enhance performance, drive innovation, and improve decision-making across business functions
Ability to leverage AI tools and platforms to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and drive innovation
Curiosity and adaptability in exploring emerging AI technologies, with a mindset for continuous learning and experimentation
Preferred
Experience with data licensing, data governance, or data compliance frameworks
Exposure to data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark)
Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to data usage and distribution
Benefits
Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
401(K) program with company match
Pet insurance
Employee resource groups
Company
Waystar
Waystar is a technology platform that provides healthcare revenue cycle management solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.12B2025-09-11Post Ipo Secondary· $709.2M
2025-05-13Post Ipo Secondary· $557M
2025-02-20Post Ipo Equity· $800M
Leadership Team
Steven M. Oreskovich
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan Ayres
VP Sales - Health Systems and Hospitals - Western Region
Recent News
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