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Alphatec Spine

Develops and markets spinal surgery solutions

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCarlsbad, CA, USA$135k - $150kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
  • Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, and Azure Monitor.
  • A solid background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
  • Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including containerized services (AKS), networking, storage, and service mesh management tools such as Istio.
  • Strong automation and scripting experience, such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
  • Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
  • Ability to design for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
  • Strong written and verbal communication focused on transparency and learning.
  • At least 5 years in production engineering roles with direct ownership of critical systems.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a primary contributor to the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 uptime for production systems.
  • Proactively monitor and continuously improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across critical services.
  • Develop and maintain observability tooling, including logging, metrics, and tracing, using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
  • Conduct postmortems and root cause analysis, and implement fixes to prevent repeat incidents.
  • Identify and eliminate manual operational toil through scripting and automation.
  • Design and maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
  • Establish and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols for system support.
  • Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection to proactively uncover weaknesses.
  • Promote operational excellence through data-driven reliability practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HITRUST, and IEC 62304.
  • A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Microsoft certifications.

About the Company

Alphatec Spine

Develops and markets spinal surgery solutions

Alphatec Spine develops and markets implants, instruments, and technologies for spine surgery, including systems for spinal fusion. Its products work by providing implants (cages, screws, plates) and surgical tools, with some offerings integrating imaging or navigation to guide procedures and support healing. It differentiates itself through a broad product portfolio and technology acquisitions (such as SafeOp Surgical) to expand capabilities in navigation and advanced spine care. Its goal is to improve patient outcomes and expand access to effective spine-care solutions by delivering a diverse set of implants, instruments, and technologies for surgeons.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Carlsbad, CA
Founded
1990

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