Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; Workplace: On-site

Salary: $220,000–$330,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, autonomous aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Establish and mature SRE practices across cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, reliability targets, monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing.
• Lead technical incident response, root-cause analysis, and elimination of recurring failure modes.
• Improve resilience through automation, testing, capacity planning, and recovery engineering.
• Develop operational tooling that reduces manual work and partner with product and platform teams on reliability requirements.
• Define the short- and long-term SRE roadmap, distribute work, and mentor engineers across SRE and Cloud Engineering.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
• Experience operating production services with availability and reliability requirements.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience designing and operating infrastructure in AWS or another major cloud environment, including infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning.
• Experience supporting containerized applications and distributed systems.
• Experience developing operational tooling with Python, Go, or a similar language, and leading technical vision over multi-quarter timelines.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing or maturing an SRE function.
• Kubernetes and cloud-native observability experience.
• Experience with regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Capacity planning, performance analysis, cloud cost management, and shared infrastructure experience.
• Experience building roadmaps in ticketing systems and mentoring engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employees receive benefits, bonus eligibility, and equity.
• Employment offers are subject to a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Artificial intelligence tools may support parts of the hiring process, while final decisions are made by humans.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.