Sr. Manager, SRE & Performance

Location: Hybrid in Mountain View, California

Salary: USD $223,000–$310,000 per year, plus potential participation in a corporate bonus program.

Company

hirify.global develops an AI-driven digital work platform with solutions for unified endpoint management, virtual applications and desktops, digital employee experience, and security and compliance.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, mentor, and provide technical direction to SRE and Performance Engineering teams.
• Define SRE and performance strategies covering reliability goals, scalability standards, operational readiness, and engineering KPIs.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability practices, production readiness criteria, and actionable alerting.
• Lead workload modeling, benchmarking, profiling, scalability testing, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, and performance regression detection.
• Provide technical leadership during production incidents and drive root-cause analysis, postmortems, corrective actions, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, SaaS operations, cloud, and product teams to improve resilience, automation, efficiency, and cost-aware platform operations.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership or management experience, preferably in SRE, performance, platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, failure modes, and architectural trade-offs.
• Experience with C#/.NET, Go, or Java; Linux systems; Docker; and HashiStack technologies including Nomad, Consul, and Vault.
• Experience with high-scale data platforms such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis/Valkey, or equivalent technologies, plus AWS cloud services.
• Deep knowledge of SRE, observability, performance engineering, capacity planning, resilience engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices. A bachelor's degree is preferred or equivalent relevant experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee ownership opportunities.
• Health insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k) with matching contributions.
• Paid time off and professional growth opportunities.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations.