Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Security

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.

About the role

Are you passionate about creating and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure? As a Site Reliability Engineer at Coalition, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the performance, availability, and efficiency of our cloud-based systems. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll design, implement, and manage robust cloud solutions that drive our mission to protect the unprotected.

This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects such as automating infrastructure, building developer-friendly platforms and paved roads, optimizing cloud resources, improving system observability, and driving operational excellence across the organization. You will also participate in a low-volume on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain highly reliable and available.

In this role, you'll focus on isolating, trapping, and responding to the inevitability of system failure, developing strategies for continuous monitoring and analysis to minimize downtime and reduce the need for manual intervention. Our core platform is primarily built in Python, with some services written in Java and Go. We take a pragmatic approach to technology, using the right tools for the job and designing systems to scale and evolve as we grow.

This role is a great fit for software engineers looking to transition into SRE or for experienced SREs eager to work in a dynamic environment solving challenging technical problems. If you thrive on solving complex problems, working with cutting-edge technologies, and making systems resilient, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a remote position that can be based in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

• 3+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud engineering or Software Development roles in a full stack engineering environment
• Strong understanding of AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, etc.) and best practices for building scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK to automate cloud infrastructure deployment and management.
• Must have experience working with containerization and orchestration tools such as ECS, Kubernetes etc
• Experience working with fault tolerant services and the iterative development of highly-available systems
• Exposure to full-stack monitoring from system level metrics to SLOs, failure-based testing approaches, and monitoring strategies
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and improve both security and auditability (e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins, Travis, or CircleCI)
• Experience soliciting systems requirements, designing, and implementing new platform components leveraging infrastructure or SaaS services
• Some knowledge of software engineering design patterns, agile development, and architecture principles
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in debugging and resolving infrastructure or application issues.
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, effectively communicate complex ideas, and advocate for best practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience

Bonus Skills

• Experience working with Hashicorp Nomad and/or Vault
• Experience in Go or Python, writing libraries and tooling
• Familiarity with cloud networking concepts (e.g., VPC, DNS, Load Balancers, NAT) and cloud security principles, including IAM, role-based access control, and encryption.
• Exposure to Kafka or other event streaming platforms

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $108,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $163,900/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, I