Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)

Location: San Diego, California; on-site

Salary: $183,000–$275,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and simulation and synthetic reality technologies.

What you will do

• Establish and mature the SRE function across cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing.
• Lead technical incident response, complex failure investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Improve system resilience through automation, testing, capacity planning, and recovery engineering.
• Partner with product and platform teams to incorporate reliability requirements into system design.
• Define the short- and long-term SRE roadmap, distribute work, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
• Experience operating production services with defined availability and reliability requirements.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud environment, infrastructure as code, and automated provisioning.
• Experience supporting containerized applications and distributed systems.
• Operational tooling or automation experience using Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and technical execution across multi-quarter timelines.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employees receive benefits, bonus eligibility, and equity.
• Compensation is determined by skills, experience, certifications, licenses, and work location.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.