Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About Formation Bio Formation Bio is an AI-native pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development. The company has built proprietary technology platforms to optimize critical aspects of clinical drug development, enabling more efficient trial design, faster trial completion, and higher quality trial data. Formation Bio acquires clinical-stage drugs from pharmaceutical and biotech companies with the goal to develop assets faster, unlock greater value per program and ultimately accelerate access to new treatments for patients. 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 2025 Fierce 15 Award 2024 Endpoints 11 Award

Formation Bio

Bringing new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

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formation.bio

51-200 employees

Biotechnology Research

New York, NY

2013

Privately Held

48k LinkedIn followers

Raised $528M

• Our Vision for AI in Pharma
• [https://www.formation.bio/blog/our-vision-for-ai-in-pharma]
• Our Current Drug Portfolio [https://www.formation.bio/licensing-and-pipeline]
• At Formation Bio, our values are the driving force behind our mission to
• revolutionize the pharma industry. Every team and individual at the company
• shares these same values, and every team and individual plays a key part in our
• mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
• workloads, including compute, runtime environments, orchestration,
• deployment, observability, access controls, and reliability.
• Build and operate secure, observable, reliable infrastructure for product
• applications, containerized services, internal tools, data systems, ML
• pipelines, inference, and agentic software.
• Research, develop, and maintain core aws infrastructure and additional cloud
• outposts for services across development, staging, and production, including
• compute, networking, databases, load balancers, and secrets management.
• Create, review, maintain, and optimize infrastructure as code, CI/CD
• pipelines, and reusable platform patterns.
• Establish strong operational practices, including SLOs, monitoring, alerting,
• runbooks, incident response, advanced diagnostics, root cause analysis, and
• post-incident follow-through.
• Work with Product engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science to
• evaluate, negotiate, and implement architecture and infrastructure for
• product software, data systems, model training, and inference based on

• Use AI tools to accelerate infrastructure development, investigate incidents,
• improve documentation, build automation, and make operational improvements
• while validating their output.
• Participate in the support rotation and incident response. Maintain a strong
• bias for automation, the patience for ClickOps, and the experience to know
• when each is appropriate.
• Write and review requirements, design documents, and operating procedures.
• Share knowledge and mentor engineers on infrastructure and SRE fundamentals.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering,
• infrastructure, systems, DevOps, or a similar discipline.
• Production experience operating cloud infrastructure and distributed systems,
• with strong operational and reliability judgment.
• Experience with advanced diagnostics, incident response, root cause analysis,
• observability, and automation.
• Experience with AWS and Snowflake. Experience with Azure, GCP, and/or Vercel
• is a plus.
• Working experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform or
• OpenTofu, and virtual networking. Terragrunt is a plus
• Experience supporting production ML or AI workloads, MLOps infrastructure,
• workflow orchestration, model serving, or a related platform is a plus.
• Strong SRE and infrastructure fundamentals are the core requirements.
• Experience managing shared COTS and FOSS software applications in addition to
• our internal software and tools
• Daily fluency with AI tools, including LLMs and agentic coding systems,
• paired with strong engineering judgment and a high bar for validation.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across engineering, Data
• Science, Data Engineering, Security, and non-technical partners.
• Experience operating infrastructure in a regulated or validated environment
• is a plus.

• Compensation Individual compensation is determined by several factors, including
• role scope, geographic location, and skills & experience. Your offer will
• reflect where you fall within the range based on these considerations. In
• addition to base salary, we offer equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous
• perks. If the posted range doesn't match your expectations, we still encourage
• you to apply!
• Where We Hire Formation Bio is prioritizing hiring in key hubs, primarily the
• New York City and Boston metro areas, with a hybrid model requiring 3 days per
• week in office. Applicants from the Research Triangle (NC) and San Francisco Bay
• Area may also be considered. Please apply only if you reside in these locations
• or are willing to relocate.
• Equal Opportunity Formation Bio is committed to building a diverse and inclusive
• We've seen a rise in recruiting impersonation scams across the industry, where
• fake profiles pose as recruiters aiming to trick candidates into sharing
• personal and financial information through illegitimate interviews and job
• offers. All legitimate recruiting communications from Formation Bio will come
• from a @formation.bio email address. If you receive outreach from someone
• claiming to work at Formation Bio through any other domain or channel, please
• disregard it and do not share any personal information.