Oscar Health: Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure / SRE — New York, New York, United States

About Oscar Health

Oscar Health is a health-insurance business built around a technology platform and member services. Its recruitment board also describes Oscar Medical Group activities in virtual health assessments and virtual care. Those notices reflect distinct parts of the wider operation: insurance products and member administration alongside clinical services. Technology, insurance operations and care delivery consequently appear in different roles on the board, with the employing team determining the service and professional responsibilities of an individual position.

The position and its setting

Oscar Health lists Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure / SRE in New York, New York, United States, under reference 7572045. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 29 January 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Our Core Technology teams build and maintain the foundational platform upon which all Oscar engineering is built
• We are responsible for architecting a world-class, resilient ecosystem using a modern stack centered on AWS/GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes with developer focused tooling and CI/CD
• Our mission is to provide an automated, self-service infrastructure that empowers our engineering organization to move fast without sacrificing security or stability
• Report into a Staff/Senior Staff Engineer
• Work: Location: This position is based in our New York City office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week
• Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid
• Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $180,504 - $236,911 per year
• You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses
• Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains such as DevOps, site reliability, and cloud best practices
• Leadership: the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams outside of Core Technology
• Work: with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems
• Leadership: and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices
• Independently responsible for large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains
• Facilitates, encourages, and enhances cross-team execution and collaboration; knows when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigates risk to deliver on time
• Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, as well as organization-wide projects
• Drives prioritization of technical roadmap and influences prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their team

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
• Experience as a major contributor cross-pod or cross-company deliverables
• Experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems
• Demonstrates expertise of the practical application of CS concepts within their team
• Sets and enforces the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code
• Experience mentoring and training more junior engineers

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Cloud Proficiency: Deep expertise in managing production environments within AWS or GCP at scale
• Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools to manage complex, multi-account structures
• Orchestration & Delivery: track record with Kubernetes and workflows using ArgoCD
• SRE Discipline: background in Site Reliability Engineering, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and incident management
• CI/CD & Automation: Experience building robust deployment pipelines via GitHub Actions
• Observability: Proficiency with monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
• Security & Networking: Knowledge of cloud-native security (IAM, VPC peering) and service mesh technologies like Istio
• Programming: Understanding of at least one coding language that you are able to use to develop scripts and software
• Education: B.S. in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent high-level industry experience
• This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity
• Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience
• Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members
• We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family
• Advertised location: New York, New York, United States

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Oscar Health

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Oscar Health posting below and match the title and reference 7572045.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the New York, New York, United States position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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Practical preparation: Kubernetes

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Relevant skills

• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• AI/ML
• Google Cloud
• Terraform
• AI
• maintenance
• compliance