About us

Coalition is the worlds 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, youll 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, youll 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 employees 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.

Perks

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

Why Coalition?

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.

Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join ## OurCoalition.

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Anti-Discrimination Notice

Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.

Accommodations

Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.

To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.