Staff Systems Reliability Engineer

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day we collaborate create and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health our company and your career

About This Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Staff System Reliability Engineer V to lead the design scalability and resilience of our cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in AWS infrastructure automation and observability who thrives in complex high-availability environments. As a senior technical leader you’ll work closely with engineering and security teams to optimize performance improve deployment pipelines and uphold service reliability across mission-critical systems.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design and implement scalable fault-tolerant AWS-based infrastructure using Terraform and/or CloudFormation for regulated workloads (e.g. HIPAA FDA CFR Part 11 EU MDR).

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI ArgoCD or similar.

• Write automation tools and scripts in Python and/or Go to support operations monitoring and self-healing systems.

• Lead incident response efforts root cause analysis and postmortem documentation for system failures.

• GitLab pipeline authoring

• Kubernetes (EKS) cluster management support.

• Ability to migrate applications from ELB/ALB EC2 instances to k8s using Helm for configuration management.

• Define and monitor SLOs SLAs and error budgets across key services.

• Implement and manage observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch OpenTelemetry).

• Collaborate with software engineers to ensure systems are designed for reliability and security from the ground up.

• Harden system security by implementing least privilege IAM automated patching and vulnerability management.

• Evaluate and onboard new technologies to improve infrastructure efficiency and resilience.

• Mentor junior SREs and promote best practices in reliability engineering across the organization.

What We Need to See

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.

Ways To Stand Out

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services (EC2 Lambda VPC IAM RDS ECS/EKS etc.).

• Helm Argo CD

• GitLab: ability to abstract complexity to templated pipeline archetypes for similar development projects.

• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go for automation and tooling.

• Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.

• Experience managing observability and alerting systems at scale.

• Strong grasp of Linux systems networking and distributed architecture principles. Familiarity with regulatory requirements such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 HIPAA ISO 13485 and EU MDR as they relate to infrastructure and DevOps.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including documentation and incident reporting.

Work Environment / Other Requirements:

• Occasional travel to office if in Bay area.

What’s In It for You:

• Competitive compensation including base salary annual performance bonus and stock/equity opportunities.

• Outstanding benefits package with comprehensive medical dental vision and wellness programs.

• Generous paid time off including vacation holidays and sick leave — because work/life balance matters.

• Flexible work options including hybrid and remote arrangements depending on your location.

• 401(k) with company match and financial wellness resources to support your long-term goals.

• Mission-driven work — contribute to life-saving technology that improves patient outcomes around the world.

• Professional development with access to training certifications and leadership opportunities.

• Supportive and inclusive culture that values transparency autonomy and accountability.

Location:

Remote - US

Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge skills experience and work location.

Estimated Pay Range

$146000.00 - $190000.00

As a part of our core values we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds experiences skills and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws.

iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation you may contact us at [email protected]

About iRhythm Technologies iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect predict and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care iRhythm’s vision is to deliver better data better insights and better health for all.

Make iRhythm your path forward. Zio the heart monitor that changed the game.

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