Alto Pharmacy is a full-service, digitally-powered pharmacy that makes it simple to live your healthiest life by providing an easier, more supportive and more affordable pharmacy experience. We’re redefining what a pharmacy can do, with fast and reliable prescription delivery, tools like treatment reminders and medication bundling, direct access to care specialists, and support with insurance and cost savings. By focusing on the person behind the prescription, our model boosts adherence, improves health outcomes, and keeps our customers returning month after month. Learn more at www.alto.com.
As an 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.
- Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Go) and software development processes.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with Python AND 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, Sumologic, or Splunk
- Experience with CI/CD platforms like Github Actions and Concourse
- Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools to manage cloud infrastructure (we use Terraform)
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
Additional Physical Job Requirements
- Reading English, comprehending, and following simple oral and written instructions.
- The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading. Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
- Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer or phone that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Environmental Conditions: occasional exposure to low temperatures or high temperatures, outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind, and noisy environments.
- Physical Activities:
- Occasionally ascending or descending stairs, ramps and the like.
- Moving about to accomplish tasks and/or moving from one worksite to another.
- Adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds in all directions.
- Operating motor vehicles.
- Occasional sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing/driving/flying
Salary and Benefits
Salary Range: $1116,000 - $146,000
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.
Application deadline: August 30, 2024
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Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company.
To learn about Alto's privacy practices including compliance with applicable privacy laws, please click here
What We Do
Alto is America’s leading digital pharmacy, transforming a $500 billion industry. Founded in 2015, Alto’s better pharmacy model is centered on the critical role of pharmacists as the final link in a person’s health journey. Alto combines expert pharmacist care with purpose-built technology to deliver a more convenient and affordable experience for those who need medication. To date, Alto has fulfilled more than three million prescriptions, expanded to twelve markets, and built a mobile app experience that makes it easier than ever to manage medications and chat with a pharmacist. As Alto continues its rapid growth, it remains customer obsessed, with an industry-leading NPS score of 86.
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