Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud-Native Infrastructure)

Location: Remote in the United States or Canada; employees located near a hirify.global office are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

US National Salary Range: $142,800–$178,500 USD annually. New York City and California: $153,000–$191,300 USD; San Francisco: $162,600–$203,200 USD.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates a constellation of imaging satellites and a cloud-based platform that delivers satellite data for commercial, environmental, and humanitarian use cases.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and operate computing services and infrastructure in customer on-premises and cloud environments.
• Architect scalable, reproducible systems for air-gapped deployments supporting satellite operations and image processing.
• Clarify requirements with internal users, external customers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Manage deployments, service orchestration, documentation, and software integration across operating environments.
• Improve reliability and scalability by analyzing failure modes, resolving edge cases, and writing tests.
• Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot distributed systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building services that use cloud-native infrastructure and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud Kubernetes using tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and similar IaC or GitOps tooling, plus CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or CircleCI.
• Experience building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services, including platform optimization and cluster tuning in constrained environments.
• Advanced Python and Bash skills, distributed-systems observability and troubleshooting experience, and strong cross-functional communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with CUDA-based GPU programs.
• Security expertise in sensitive environments, including zero-trust architectures, Kubernetes hardening, security audits, and air-gapped workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• People-centric culture focused on belonging, collaboration, and humanitarian impact.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, with an HSA and company contribution.
• Paid time off, holidays, company-wide days off, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Home office, phone, and internet reimbursements, plus commuter benefits for office-based employees.
• Tuition reimbursement, LinkedIn Learning access, equity, wellness support, and paid volunteering time off.