3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$165k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Scale and optimize database infrastructure for performance and reliability, beginning with PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora
- Design and implement monitoring, tuning, and scaling strategies for the SaaS platform
- Build automation and tooling for consistent and repeatable database management
- Lead optimization initiatives that improve system health and uptime
- Expand into broader SRE responsibilities and help shape the company’s infrastructure and reliability culture
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or database administration roles
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora managing production workloads at scale
- Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js, with comfort working near application code
- Strong background in highly available and scalable database design and operations
- Ability to optimize database performance, resolve complex issues, and enforce best practices
- Solid engineering foundation and interest in building reliable systems
- Bonus: experience with Terraform or Terragrunt
- Bonus: familiarity with Prisma or other ORM frameworks
- Bonus: experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Bonus: exposure to Redshift or other data warehouse technologies
Benefits
- Platinum medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Free life insurance, including long-term and short-term disability
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Maternity and paternity leave
- 401(k) contribution of 3% of income, even without employee contributions
- Remote work with lunch provided twice weekly, monthly phone stipend, and home-office perks
- Health FSAs and HSAs
- Team events and offsites
- Remote work arrangement
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Assured
Assured builds an AI-driven claims intelligence platform used by insurers to ingest, evaluate, and process claims. Its products include self-service claim filing, data enrichment, fraud detection, and ML-guided decisioning, delivered as enterprise software to large carriers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on improving insurers’ claims operations and analytics.