Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure / SRE

Oscar Health
Los Angeles, California, United States$181k – $237kPosted 27 February 2026

Job Description

<p>Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure / SRE to join our Engineering team.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>You will report into a Staff/Senior Staff Engineer.</p> <p><strong>Work Location: </strong>This position is based in our Los Angeles office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week. Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid</p> <p><strong>Pay Transparency: </strong>The base pay for this role is: $180,504 - $236,911 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains such as DevOps, site reliability, and cloud best practices</li> <li>Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams outside of Core Technology</li> <li>Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems</li> <li>Lead and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices</li> <li>Independently responsible for large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains</li> <li>Facilitates, encourages, and enhances cross-team execution and collaboration; knows when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigates risk to deliver on time</li> <li>Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, as well as organization-wide projects</li> <li>Drives prioritization of technical roadmap and influences prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their team</li> <li>Actively identifies and reduces failure domains, designs and builds resilient systems, and strives to reduce adverse effects of an outage.</li> <li>Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures </li> <li>Guides the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they are responsible for</li> <li>Own medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion</li> <li>Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations</li> <li>Other duties as assigned</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>6+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments</li> <li>Experience as a major contributor cross-pod or cross-company deliverables</li> <li>Experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems.</li> <li>Demonstrates expertise of the practical application of CS concepts within their team.</li> <li>Sets and enforces the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code </li> <li>Experience mentoring and training more junior engineers</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus points:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Cloud Proficiency:</strong> Deep e ... (truncated, view full listing at source)