Site Reliability Engineer II

Site Reliability | Any location, United States

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform SRE team. In this role, you will build and operate the infrastructure, tools, and “paved roads” that empower our developers to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software with speed and confidence.

You’ll work across the entire stack—from infrastructure automation and observability to developer enablement and system reliability. You will be a key collaborator with software engineering and security teams, helping to evolve our Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enhance CI/CD pipelines, and scale our internal developer platform. We value pragmatism and engineering excellence, primarily using Python, Go, and AWS to reduce toil and build self‑service capabilities.

• Infrastructure Automation: Design, build, and scale production environments using AWS and Terraform.
• System Reliability: Improve the resilience and operability of our platform through failure‑based testing and automated recovery strategies.
• Developer Enablement: Design and implement reusable platform components and self‑service tools to streamline the developer experience.
• Observability: Implement and maintain robust observability practices, including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO management.
• Mentorship & Standards: Guide junior engineers, uphold high infrastructure quality, and contribute to the team’s evolving best practices.
• Collaboration: Participate in technical design discussions, sharing feedback and adapting strategies based on team input and evolving requirements.

• Experience: 4+ years in SRE, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or Software Development roles.
• Cloud Proficiency: Hands‑on experience operating and scaling production environments within AWS
  .
• Infrastructure as Code: Strong expertise with Terraform for managing complex cloud infrastructure.
• Programming: Proficiency in Go or Python
  , with experience building production‑grade automation, tooling, or libraries.
• Containers & Orchestration:
  
  Experience with
  ECS or Kubernetes
  .
• CI/CD: Familiarity with modern deployment tools, specifically Git Hub Actions
  .
• Communication: Strong written and verbal skills with a knack for evangelizing reliability best practices across the organization.

• Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems in a high‑traffic production environment.
• Exposure to event streaming systems such as Kafka or Kinesis
  .
• Experience contributing to Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) or automating self‑service infrastructure workflows.
• Familiarity with systems security
  , compliance requirements, or infrastructure hardening.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $110,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $163,350/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, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

100% medical, dental and vision coverage

Flexible PTO policy

Annual home office stipend and WeWork access

Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote‑first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each…