[Hiring] Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Ethos Life

Role Description

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.
• Raise the reliability bar across engineering by partnering closely with product teams.
• Work alongside SRE leadership in the US and Bangalore to shape the roadmap.
• Be a go-to technical authority for reliability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, or TypeScript, and a commitment to engineering best practices: design patterns, code reviews, and testing.
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Experience building Kubernetes operators is a plus.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, CI/CD systems, and observability tooling such as DataDog.
• Hands-on experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, and running effective post-mortems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A strong desire to remove toil from systems, and the judgment to balance reliability, velocity, and cost.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Further details of our US benefits can be found at Ethos Careers .