Engineering Manager, SRE (AI)

Location: Anywhere in the world; coverage is strongest in EMEA and APAC, with opportunities to support the Americas.

Company

hirify.global builds a global HR platform with automation and AI capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team with responsibility for career development, performance, hiring, team health, and progression.
• Set SRE goals, prioritize delivery, and manage the support rotation and on-call model.
• Own core infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, DNS, TLS, and CI systems.
• Advance SLOs, error budgets, incident response, observability, and reliability practices.
• Partner with Security on threat management, patching, infrastructure controls, audits, and compliance.
• Represent SRE across engineering and senior leadership while managing vendor relationships.

Requirements

• Experience leading an SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering team and developing direct reports.
• Hands-on site reliability, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure background with Kubernetes in production and AWS at meaningful scale.
• Experience building, enabling, or scaling AI infrastructure.
• Knowledge of observability, Terraform, CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, Docker, and shell scripting.
• Experience with incident response, on-call operations, SLOs, error budgets, and regulated environments.
• Strong prioritization, written communication, conflict resolution, and cross-team collaboration skills in a fully distributed async organization.

Nice to have

• Backend development experience with Elixir, Java, Clojure, Node, Python, or a similar language.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Honeycomb, PostgreSQL or Aurora operations, Linux, security, FinOps, or team growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from anywhere with flexible working hours in an async environment.
• Flexible paid time off and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Budgets for co-working spaces, learning, wellness, home office equipment, and IT equipment.
• Mental health support services and stock options.
• Emphasis on life-work balance, autonomy, inclusion, and employee growth.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview followed by a hiring manager interview.
• Scenario interview with a peer team leader, executive interview, and Bar Raiser interview.
• Offer stage includes prior employment verification.