Natera · 1 day ago
Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $175K/yr
7+ years expNatera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer to establish and maintain robust development and operations practices across multiple product teams.
BiotechnologyGeneticsHealth DiagnosticsMedicalWomen's
Responsibilities
Own the entire Laboratory Operations Software release process execution, ensuring smooth and timely software releases with minimal downtime
Continuously monitor the effectiveness of the release process and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance overall quality
Act as an internal consultant and subject matter expert, coaching individual product teams on best-in-class DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring, logging, and security integration
Embed with development teams to assess and improve DevOps maturity, delivery practices, and operational readiness
Design and implement a variety of projects to support extreme growth of complexity of applications as well as to enable innovation
Provide hands-on guidance in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure usage, Kubernetes operations, and observability
Help teams adopt existing infrastructure, platforms, and tooling provided by central Cloud / Platform teams
Promote and reinforce technical standards, guardrails, and best practices that allow teams to operate autonomously while remaining compliant and secure
Guide teams in applying organizational expectations around reliability, security, and cost management through automation rather than manual controls
Serve as a feedback channel to central platform and cloud teams, sharing adoption challenges and improvement opportunities
Continuously improve and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and testing using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD
Advocate for automation-first approaches to reduce operational toil and risk
Partner with teams to define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational dashboards for their services
Guide teams through incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements
Identify systemic reliability issues and escalate platform-level concerns to the appropriate owning teams
Drive capacity planning and performance tuning activities to ensure scalability and efficiency
Provide expert-level support for complex infrastructure and deployment issues escalated by the product teams
Assist teams in root cause analysis and long-term remediation
Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures
Maintain comprehensive documentation of the release process, CI/CD pipelines, and regression testing procedures
Share best practices and lessons learned across teams to raise overall DevOps maturity
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade systems with emphasis on automation, integrations and infrastructure tooling
Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication, coaching, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction
Expertise in setting up and managing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
Proven experience with incident response and leading post-incident review (post-mortem) processes
Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and optimization of distributed systems
Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
Practical experience building complex CI/CD pipelines
Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
Ability to read and understand Java code
Strong command of AWS stack
Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
Experience working with databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Version control systems (e.g., Git)
Experience working with Terraform
Preferred
Knowledge of various regression testing frameworks and tools (e.g. JUnit)
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
Experience working in regulated environments like healthcare
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
Free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
401k benefits
Commuter benefits
Generous employee referral program
Company
Natera
Natera specializes in cell-free DNA testing to provide a more targeted interventions to oncology, women's health, and organ health.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.16BKey Investors
Sofinnova InvestmentsLightspeed Venture PartnersSequoia Capital
2023-09-07Post Ipo Equity· $250M
2022-11-15Post Ipo Equity· $400.05M
2022-03-16Post Ipo Equity· $5M
Leadership Team
Steve Chapman
CEO
Jonathan Sheena
Co-Founder, Board Member
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