About the role
Alto provides an easier, more efficient and more affordable pharmacy experience for patients, providers, and partners. Our full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy makes it simple for patients to live their healthiest life, while our technology empowers partners with automated and customizable solutions for the entire pharmacy value stream. To learn more about Alto, you can review our Founders’ Story and our Values.
As a Senior Engineer on our DevSecOps team at Alto Pharmacy, you will collaborate closely with our engineering, IT, and compliance teams to evolve our technical infrastructure, developer tooling and development and security practices to keep our systems running reliably and securely. Your expertise will help us maintain the highest standards of operational excellence and data security in the online pharmacy space.
Example Projects:
Design a Kubernetes operator to manage the lifecycle of complex applications
Introducing a new component to our infrastructure (e.g. a new type of database), researching the operational requirements of deploying the component at scale in a production environment and implementing the Terraform modules, Kubernetes resource definitions, etc. needed
Build tooling to detect and assist with upgrades of critical packages and infrastructure components
Accelerate Your Career as You
Infrastructure
Own our cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, databases and networks, using Terraform to manage resources as code
Keep the components of our infrastructure up-to-date by continuously applying upgrades and leveraging new capabilities as they become available
Observability
Equip our engineering team with the tools they need to detect problems and understand their causes quickly and effectively
Deploy tools to collect and visualize metrics, traces and logs providing deep insight into the behavior of our system
Monitor operational and security alerts, and lead response and remediation efforts
Developer Experience
Maintain and enhance the tools we use to test and deploy our applications, including CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, and Kubernetes operators
Eliminate toil with automation to improve developer velocity and satisfaction
Security
Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to ensure our users and systems have access to the information they need and nothing more
Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability testing, and infrastructure audits
Continuously evaluate and improve our security posture
Collaboration
Work across teams to understand the infrastructure needs of our internal and external stakeholders
Educate the engineering team on principles for building reliable software and security best practices
A Bit About You
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or information security, preferably in the healthcare or online services industry.
You currently hold the title of DevOps Engineer or SRE.
Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience with Python, GoLang, Javascript or Typescript, SQL/R, Ruby on Rails, Java, React, React Native, Swift, or Kotlin
Experience with O&O tools like Grafana, Amplitude, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sumologic, or Splunk
Experience with CI/CD platforms like Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Concourse
Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools to manage cloud infrastructure (we use Terraform)
Familiarity with MLOps and ML platforms like MLFlow, Kubeflow, AWS Sagemaker, Google Cortex is a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
Understanding of best practices for operating a reliable and secure Kubernetes cluster
Experience with building infrastructure and tooling for a service-oriented architecture
Experience working across teams to identify opportunities to improve developer experience
Experience with security tools and technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and endpoint protection.
Familiarity with healthcare-specific security challenges and compliance requirements
Salary and Benefits
Salary Range: $136,800 - 171,000
Commission Eligible: No
Equity Eligible: Yes
Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time . Engineering on/off sites.
Location Requirement: Employment at Alto is limited to individuals residing in the following states: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Illinois, New York, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, Washington (WA), Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
Employment Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. At this time, Alto is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.
Benefits: Full-time: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Group Life, AD&D, Employer paid STD/LTD, generous PTO and parental leave.
About the company
Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.