Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Sunnyvale, California or Austin, Texas; employees living within a 50-mile radius of an office must report onsite at least three times per week. The role may be eligible for relocation benefits.

Salary: $172,000–$300,000 per year, plus bonus potential and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive technologies and autonomous-driving systems guided by a vision of zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

What you will do

• Co-found and operationalize a centralized SRE practice, including adoption paths, governance, and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Build shared tooling for service catalogs, SLOs, error budgets, readiness evidence, and toil reduction.
• Define risk-based production reliability architecture, minimum standards, golden paths, and exception processes.
• Establish incident severity, command, response, and blameless post-incident practices with tracked corrective actions.
• Partner with service owners to classify critical services, map dependencies, identify failure modes, and define meaningful SLIs and SLOs.
• Turn repeated manual operational work into reusable software while protecting engineering capacity.

Requirements

• Significant experience as an SRE, Production Engineer, or Infrastructure Software Engineer operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience taking an SRE or operational excellence program from 0 to 1 or improving reliability in an organization with uneven maturity.
• Strong software engineering skills in at least one general-purpose language, such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Deep knowledge across Linux, networking, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or observability.
• Hands-on experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, actionable alerts, and on-call health.
• Ability to build consensus and drive standards adoption without taking ownership away from service teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, safety-relevant systems, automotive software, or other high-consequence production environments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, data or ML platforms, service catalogs, reliability scorecards, or policy-as-code.
• Experience facilitating game days, failure injection, regional failover, or disaster-recovery exercises.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, and sickness and accident benefits.
• Paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and an employee assistance program.
• GM vehicle discounts and performance-based incentive pay.

Hiring process

• Applicants may be required to complete role-related assessments and pre-employment screening where applicable.