About the Role
Our Core Technology teams build and maintain the foundational platform upon which all Oscar engineering is built. We are responsible for architecting a world-class, resilient ecosystem using a modern stack centered on AWS/GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes with developer focused tooling and CI/CD. Our mission is to provide an automated, self-service infrastructure that empowers our engineering organization to move fast without sacrificing security or stability.
Responsibilities
- Become an expert on your team's business and technical domains, including DevOps, site reliability, and cloud best practices.
- Lead the planning, execution, and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams outside of Core Technology.
- Collaborate with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
- Lead and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.
- Independently manage large or complex technology capabilities within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains.
- Facilitate, encourage, and enhance cross-team execution and collaboration, proactively mitigating risks to ensure timely delivery.
- Contribute significantly to the objectives of their functional group and organization-wide projects.
- Drive the prioritization of the technical roadmap and influence the prioritization of the product roadmap and process enhancements within their team.
- Actively identify and reduce failure domains, design and build resilient systems, and strive to minimize the adverse effects of outages.
- Build software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
- Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they are responsible for.
- Own medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a variety of technologies and increasingly impactful accomplishments.
- Experience as a major contributor to cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
- Experience leading technical contributions, improving team-created quality, and building fault-tolerant, scalable software systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in the practical application of CS concepts within their team.
- Experience setting and enforcing standards for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code.
- Experience mentoring and training junior engineers.
- Cloud Proficiency: Deep expertise in managing production environments within AWS or GCP at scale.
- Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools to manage complex, multi-account structures.
- Orchestration & Delivery: Proven track record with Kubernetes and workflows using ArgoCD.
- SRE Discipline: Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, including SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
- CI/CD & Automation: Experience building robust deployment pipelines via GitHub Actions.
- Observability: Proficiency with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Security & Networking: Knowledge of cloud-native security (IAM, VPC peering) and service mesh technologies like Istio.
- Programming: Understanding of at least one coding language for developing scripts and software.
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent high-level industry experience.
Skills
- DevOps
- Site Reliability
- Cloud Best Practices
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- ArgoCD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- IAM
- VPC Peering
- Istio
- Programming
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
Education Level
- B.S. in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent high-level industry experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $180,504 - $236,911 per year
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick time
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan participation
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid wellness time and reimbursements
- Participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program
- Company equity grants
- Annual performance bonuses
About the Company
- Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members.
- We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.
Equal Opportunity
- At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support.
- We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives.
