Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 base salary per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded technology company operating in the regulated sports betting and gaming industry.

What you will do

• Define and execute the long-term Kubernetes platform strategy across Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, RKE2, and on-premise environments.
• Lead architectural decisions covering cluster lifecycle management, networking, identity and access management, observability, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Direct large-scale platform initiatives across multiple engineering teams, establishing technical standards and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Develop service level objectives, service level indicators, and error budget frameworks aligned with business priorities.
• Build automation-first infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, self-healing systems, and internal platform tooling.
• Lead critical incidents, improve platform resilience, adopt AI-powered engineering capabilities, and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• At least 8 years of experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed cloud and on-premise infrastructure, including at least 3 years at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including architecture, networking, storage, security, operators, lifecycle management, and large-scale operations.
• Extensive AWS and Google Cloud Platform experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong software development experience in Go, Python, or both, plus GitOps, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, Linux, and reliability engineering.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, including mentoring, technical strategy, and cross-functional influence. A gaming license may be required as a condition of employment.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated industries or hybrid cloud environments.
• Open-source contributions or cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with base salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
• Work spans cloud and on-premise infrastructure supporting a regulated gaming platform.
• Opportunities to influence platform strategy, engineering standards, and AI adoption across the organization.