Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Automotive)

Location: Hybrid in Markham, Ontario; expected to report to the Markham office at least three times per week.

Salary: $147,000–$196,600 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops software-defined vehicle platforms and connected mobility technologies focused on safety, emissions reduction, congestion reduction, and connected customer experiences.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant, observable infrastructure for vehicle telemetry, data ingestion, and platform operations.
• Lead production readiness across multiple teams through hands-on coding, reliability standards, architectural improvements, and resilient deployments.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines with quality gates, artifact promotion, deployment verification, progressive delivery, and rollback practices.
• Define SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational practices with SRE, product, application, infrastructure, and data engineering teams.
• Build reusable AI workflows and evaluations, automate incident operations, and develop diagnostics, remediation, and customer-facing status workflows.
• Lead on-call incident response, post-incident reviews, system-level fixes, technical direction, mentoring, and cross-functional reliability initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering, including managing or mentoring high-impact teams.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale, cloud-native production systems, preferably on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Hands-on expertise in observability, standardized instrumentation, OpenTelemetry collectors, SLO/SLI definitions, monitors, alerts, and dashboards.
• Experience with production readiness, service ownership, incident management, on-call rotations, post-incident learning, and continuous reliability improvement.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, release strategies, quality gates, progressive delivery, deployment verification, and safe rollback.
• Strong programming ability in Python, Go, Java, or a comparable language, plus familiarity with AI-assisted development, LLM applications, agentic workflows, and evaluation techniques.

Nice to have

• Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Kubernetes Service, Helm, Kustomize, or Terraform experience.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry platforms.
• Experience with Promptfoo, Copilot-based AI skills, or LLM application development and testing.
• Experience operating large-scale systems using Fivetran, Apache Flink, Kafka, or Pulsar.
• Experience with vehicle telemetry, connected-vehicle platforms, or high-volume event-driven systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off, vacation days, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave benefits.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• Defined Contribution Pension plan with company and matching contributions.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.
• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.