Site Reliability Engineer

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

The Site Reliability Engineering team works with all departments and business units to provide dependable cloud infrastructure solutions along with support and services which allow teams to innovate experiment and deliver software while maintaining a high level of quality. We focus on providing a platform and knowledge to help teams develop resilient and scalable cloud systems and services ensuring quick detection and recovery from failures and cultivating a culture of continuous enhancement. 

Our team is built on collaboration offering robust mentorship opportunities and the flexibility to explore every facet of our business through our cloud computing initiatives.

Why we’re looking for you:

You meet the following requirements or believe you have transferable skills in all of these areas.

• You have experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS GCP or Azure

• You have built and deployed containerized applications and services

• You enjoy automating manual tasks

• You have worked in agile environments and are comfortable iterating quickly

• You enjoy collaborating and communicating with team members of varying skill sets and from different fields

Bonus points for:

• Experience with one of the many infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform (our favorite) Kubernetes CloudFormation Docker Ansible Salt Packer Puppet Chef or similar

• Familiarity with database design and tuning especially with AWS Aurora MySQL and Postgresql

• Familiarity with data workflow orchestration tools such as Composer and Dataproc

• Proficiency with Bash and a programming language (Python Ruby Golang etc.)

• Previous experience in the healthcare sector and securing infrastructure to standards or compliance frameworks such as HIPAA HITRUST or ISO

Responsibilities for the Position:

• Works as a member of an SRE team

• Review application requirements and recommend solutions and common design patterns

• Use your experience deep technical knowledge and creativity to simplify development and infrastructure provisioning workflows

• Configure and deploy cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CI tools like Concourse

• Proactively and continuously learn about new and relevant technologies

• Use your knowledge to influence other developers and advocate for best practices

• Implement dashboards monitoring and alerting for team services

• Support your users either in person or via Slack 

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California Colorado New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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