Senior Site Reliability Engineer, AKASA

$145-200k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Java
Linux
Go
Terraform
Sentry
Azure
Prometheus
Grafana
Git
Unix
Senior level
Remote in US
AKASA

AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle

Be an early applicant

AKASA

AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAutomation

Be an early applicant

$145-200k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Java
Linux
Go
Terraform
Sentry
Azure
Prometheus
Grafana
Git
Unix
Senior level
Remote in US

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To enable human health by building the future of healthcare with AI.

Role

Who you are

  • Monitoring: Proficient in visualizing, monitoring, and alerting on telemetry data (logs, metrics, & traces) using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, Sentry, and similar technologies
  • Containerization & Infrastructure: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies
  • Programming Skills: 5+ years of professional experience using Python, Go, Java, or similar
  • Linux/Unix Proficiency: Proficient with Linux and Unix Shell
  • Collaboration: Excellent collaboration and asynchronous communication skills
  • Documentation: Committed to thorough documentation to streamline learning and processes
  • Proactive Attitude: Proactive and enthusiastic attitude towards identifying and fixing issues
  • Agility: Ability to deliver quickly, iterate fast, and adapt to changing requirements
  • Version Control: Proficient in using Git/GitHub for version control

Desirable

  • Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure
  • Networking: Understanding of networking principles and protocols
  • Security: Knowledge of security best practices in infrastructure management
  • Performance Tuning: Experience in performance tuning and optimization

What the job involves

  • In this role, you will work closely with both Infrastructure and Platform team members to integrate best practice monitoring into our applications
  • Your focus will be on developing high-quality runbooks for incident management, ensuring that our response procedures are efficient and effective
  • You will be responsible for building high-quality visualizations and meaningful alerting systems that provide clear, actionable insights into system performance and health
  • As an SRE, you will manage and optimize our infrastructure using tools like Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and Kubernetes
  • You will respond to incidents, troubleshoot production issues across the entire stack, and implement automation to streamline operational processes
  • Your role will involve designing and maintaining core infrastructure to support our users, ensuring our SaaS products run smoothly and efficiently
  • Additionally, you will be proactive in identifying potential issues before they become outages, leveraging your expertise in telemetry data collection, querying, and monitoring using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, OpenSearch, and Sentry
  • You will collaborate with development teams to embed reliability and best practices into the software development lifecycle, ensuring robust and resilient applications
  • Your contributions will be vital in scaling our monitoring infrastructure, enhancing system reliability, and ensuring seamless user experiences
  • By continuously improving our infrastructure and processes, you will help AKASA deliver high-quality, dependable services to our customers
  • Incident Response: Lead an on-call rotation (PagerDuty) to respond to incidents impacting system availability
  • Application Architecture: Dive deep into our application architectures and work with engineering teams on best practices for monitoring, reliability, and scalability
  • Infrastructure Management: Manage our infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, and Kubernetes
  • Proactive Monitoring: Develop monitoring solutions that alert based on symptoms rather than outages
  • Documentation: Document every action to turn findings into repeatable processes and automation
  • Process Improvement: Enhance operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades) to ensure reliability and efficiency
  • Infrastructure Development: Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure to support our applications effectively
  • Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across various services and levels of the stack
  • Growth Planning: Strategically plan and scale AKASA’s monitoring

Our take

The US healthcare system is both financially and operationally complex, costing patients and providers an estimated $500B annually in medical billing and insurance administrative expenses. AKASA, formerly Alpha Health, addresses this issue with its Unified Automation™ technology, designed to streamline revenue cycle operations and ease the healthcare burden.

AKASA's approach combines human expertise with AI-driven automation. Its machine-learning tools are supported by revenue cycle specialists who handle complex cases and refine the algorithms. This blend of human and machine intelligence could reshape the healthcare industry.

If successful, AKASA's model could serve as a blueprint for other sectors, demonstrating how automation and human oversight can work together to solve complex operational challenges.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

-17% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2024

$120m

SERIES C

Mar 2021

$60m

SERIES B

Total funding: $205m

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
  • Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Generous parent leave policy
  • Full employee coverage for life insurance
  • Company-paid holidays
  • 401(K) plan

Company values

  • Lead with empathy: We embrace a spirit of generosity, kindness, and inclusivity
  • Commit to excellence: We hold ourselves, our work, and our culture to high standard
  • Empower yourself & others: We act with autonomy and authenticity, while allowing others to do the same
  • Be brave: We shoot for the moon with our ideas and challenge the status quo
  • Build trust: We deliver on our promises to each other and our clients
  • Play the team: We know that we're better when we work together as one team and support each other

Company HQ

The East Side, South San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Malinka Walaliyadde

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Counsyl and Corning Life Sciences. They have an Engineering degree from Cornell University.

Varun Ganapathi

(Co-Founder & CTO)

They have successfully started two AI companies prior to AKASA. One was acquired by Google and the other by Udacity.

Andy Atwal

(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)

Prior to AKASA, they were the founding Software Engineer at Counsyl, a health technology company offering DNA screenings for various diseases.

Ben Beadle-Ryby

(Co-Founder)

Previously, they were a Partner at the Advisory Board Company, where they oversaw revenue cycle consulting and technology.

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