Kontakt.io hiring Senior Site Reliability Engineer • Remote (Work from Home) | Himalayas
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kontakt.io is a leader in Indoor Journey Analytics, optimizing processes and resources using AI, IoT, and RTLS to uncover waste, streamline capacity, and enhance customer and staff experiences across various industries, primarily healthcare and smart buildings.

Kontakt.io

Employee count: 51-200

United States only
Kontakt.io is building the platform that care operations run on.
We reduce waste, cut costs, and improve revenue by improving throughput, asset utilization and staff productivity. Our platform uses AI, RTLS, and EHR data to enable self-learning agents to automate workflows, adapt in real-time, and orchestrate all of care delivery operations.
Easy to deploy and scale, it gives a clear picture of spaces, equipment, and people, eliminating inefficiencies and enhancing the patient experience. With measurable 10X ROI and over 20+ use cases, Kontakt.io is the go-to platform for better and faster care delivery operations.
We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure the reliability, performance, and automation of our cloud-based, real-time platform. This role will focus on keeping our platform running smoothly 24/7, minimizing downtime, improving observability, incident response, and self-healing automation. You will work closely with engineering teams to optimize infrastructure, scale systems efficiently, and ensure our platform meets the needs of our growing healthcare customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure 99.99% uptime of our cloud platform by maintaining highly reliable and resilient infrastructure.
  • Design and implement self-healing, fault-tolerant systems to proactively prevent failures.
  • Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure proactive performance monitoring and rapid incident resolution.
  • Architect and optimize scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS) for real-time, high-throughput data processing.
  • Improve and manage containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker) to support multi-region deployments.
  • Implement and enhance infrastructure as code (Terraform) for fully automated infrastructure management.
  • Develop and refine a robust monitoring, alerting, and logging system using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, driving down mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR).
  • Conduct blameless postmortems and implement lessons learned to improve system resilience.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and failover mechanisms to reduce manual intervention.
  • Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning to maintain availability of critical healthcare services.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to align SRE initiatives with business goals.

Our requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Software engineering experience
  • Proven success scaling high-traffic, mission-critical platforms in SaaS, IoT, or healthcare.
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
  • Strong background in monitoring, logging, and observability with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
  • Deep knowledge of CI/CD automation, GitOps, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of network security, access management, and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2).
  • Bonus Points If You Have:
  • Experience with healthcare IT, including EHR data, FHIR, and HL7 interoperability.
  • Expertise in real-time distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or large-scale data pipelines.

Why You'll Love It Here

  • Own Mission-Critical Reliability – Ensure hospitals and care facilities always stay online with a 99.99% uptime healthcare platform.
  • Scale AI-Powered Infrastructure – Work on real-time automation and self-healing cloud systems that orchestrate care delivery.
  • Drive Big Impact in Healthcare – Help reduce waste, optimize resources, and improve patient care with technology that delivers 10X ROI.
  • Automation-First Culture – Minimize manual ops with cutting-edge automation, observability, and incident response strategies.
  • Join a High-Performing Team – Work with top engineers, AI experts, and healthcare innovators solving real-world challenges

Ready to Build the Future of Healthcare?

Apply now and help scale the platform that care operations run on. 🚀

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About Kontakt.io

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We are Kontakt.io, and we're dedicated to transforming how businesses understand and interact with their physical spaces. Since our founding in 2013, we've been at the forefront of indoor location services and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon technology. Our core mission is to help organizations harness the power of indoor location and sensor data. We believe that by better connecting people, locations, and things, we can unlock meaningful insights, create safer and more productive workplaces, and significantly reduce waste. We empower a wide array of vertical business applications through open standard APIs and AI-driven event streams, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Our platform is designed to provide inpatient and indoor journey analytics, utilizing a powerful combination of cloud technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT), specifically Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS). This allows us to assist businesses in identifying operational inefficiencies, optimizing valuable resources, enhancing workflows, and ultimately fostering a greater sense of recognition and appreciation among both customers and staff. We serve a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, workspaces, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, airports, and public sector organizations. Our solutions are tailored to address over 20 distinct use cases, all managed through a single, unified platform. This comprehensive approach helps build responsive businesses that can anticipate and adapt to evolving operational demands and human needs. We're proud to have served over 32,000 satisfied customers, deploying millions of IoT devices globally. Our commitment is to deliver solutions that are not only technologically advanced but also easy to deploy, use, and scale, ensuring a rapid return on investment and tangible improvements in efficiency and experience.

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