Senior Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Salary: $182,800–$247,300 USD per year, plus equity compensation.

Company

hirify.global develops an education platform designed to make high-quality learning universally available to learners worldwide.

What you will do

• Identify sources of instability in distributed systems and drive operational excellence with product and platform engineering teams.
• Support core infrastructure by understanding, diagnosing, and debugging production systems.
• Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms and frameworks, and conduct launch reviews and root cause analyses.
• Maintain sustainable postmortem and incident response practices, including clear documentation.
• Implement changes that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
• Develop tooling and automation to reduce operational toil and collaborate with engineering teams on feature releases.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps for a product with millions of users.
• Experience identifying and solving issues in large-scale distributed systems.
• Professional experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Understanding of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, or Nomad.

Nice to have

• Experience improving automation and tooling to reduce service maintenance toil.
• Proven experience improving incident response processes.
• Experience assessing reliability and troubleshooting Dynamo, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL databases.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a large-scale product used by more than half a billion learners worldwide.
• Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams on technically complex systems.
• Access mentorship, learning opportunities, and collaboration with experienced engineering professionals.
• Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.

Hiring process

• Interview accommodations are available to ensure a fair and accurate skills assessment.
• AI-assisted resume and application review may be used through Greenhouse Talent Matching, with final decisions made by recruiting and hiring teams.