SRE / Backend engineer

Nabla • New York City, NY

1d

About The Position

We are a team of entrepreneurs, clinicians and engineers committed to bringing back joy to the practice of medicine. Together with a community of clinician innovators, we’ve harnessed the best of machine learning science to develop Nabla: the leading AI assistant that’s restoring the human connection at the heart of healthcare. By streamlining clinical documentation, Nabla is helping clinicians focus on what matters most - patient care. Today, over 100,000+ clinicians across 130+ healthcare organizations trust Nabla to support how they deliver care every day. We’re at the start of an ambitious journey: Ambient listening, dictation, coding, and command capabilities are all converging into a proactive assistant that intuitively streamlines clinical and financial workflows. Backed by a recent $70M Series C, we’re hiring to build the next generation of clinical AI and improve the lives of clinicians and patients everywhere. This is a great time to join us! Your team ur AI ambient documentation product is used by 100,000+ physicians across the US and EU, automatically generating clinical notes in real time during patient encounters and syncing them directly with EHR systems. Product development at Nabla is organized into cross-functional squads, each owning a specific area end-to-end. You'll be joining the Platform squad , which owns the infrastructure and engineering foundations that the rest of the company builds on. We process billions of tokens monthly, serve real-time APIs in high-stakes clinical environments, and handle hundreds of thousands of note syncs with EHR systems every week, at a scale that keeps growing. As we scale, reliability engineering is becoming a first-class discipline within the team, and you'll have real ownership in defining how we operate and build for resilience.

Requirements

• Demonstrates strong, senior-level experience in SRE, infrastructure, or back-end engineering , ideally within fast-paced, production-critical environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure experience considered if you're ready to learn a new stack)
• You've been part of a structured on-call process : alerting policies, runbooks, incident post-mortem, escalation flows
• Strong software engineering fundamentals - you write clean, maintainable infrastructure-as-code and are as comfortable reviewing a Terraform PR as you are debugging a live incident
• Autonomy is your default mode - you can identify what needs to be done, prioritize it yourself, and drive it to completion without being managed step by step
• You communicate clearly and effectively with engineers and leadership across distributed teams, including during incidents, even outside regular working hours

Nice To Haves

• experience with Kubernetes, GCP-native tooling (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub), PostgreSQL at scale, or security/compliance in a healthcare context

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability - take meaningful accountability for the stability, robustness, and performance of our platform across the full stack
• Own and scale the on-call culture - take what's already in place and bring it to the next level: strengthen our runbooks, sharpen escalation paths, and build incident response processes that can scale with the team
• Instrument everything - develop and improve our monitoring, alerting, and observability stack so that issues surface before they reach users, and our engineers can diagnose them fast
• Drive the SRE roadmap - work with the Platform squad and Engineering leadership to define and prioritize the reliability investments that matter most, from SLOs to chaos engineering
• Make engineers faster - reduce toil and improve the developer experience: better tooling, clearer feedback loops, smoother deployments
• Collaborate across squads - partner with back-end, ML, and front-end engineers to embed reliability best practices into how we build, not just how we operate

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees