Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: Chicago, Illinois; hybrid work with in-person responsibilities at an assigned hirify.global office at least two days per week

Salary: $112,500–$187,500 annually, with potential eligibility for an annual bonus and other incentives.

Company

hirify.global provides data and technology solutions that support customers and communities through products and services built around trust and innovation.

What you will do

• Define reliability strategy and contribute to architectural and strategic decisions for major platform components.
• Research, test, implement, and continuously improve systems and engineering tooling.
• Perform capacity planning, load testing, security improvements, and high-impact platform engineering.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead calm, blameless incident response and problem resolution.
• Plan and lead high-risk maintenance events while minimizing customer impact.
• Raise engineering standards through tooling, procedures, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or a related field at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes for high-volume, highly available workloads.
• Expertise with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
• Advanced Linux knowledge, including kernel internals, system performance tuning, hardening, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML solutions into cloud-native platforms, including LLM orchestration, vector databases, model serving, and AI observability.
• Ability to work in the hybrid Chicago office arrangement with at least two in-person days per week.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with day-one eligibility, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance, with optional additional coverage and legal, pet, and travel insurance.
• Adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, caregiver support, dependent care benefits, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial wellness resources, and career coaching.
• Tuition reimbursement, flexible or paid time off, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, employee discounts, and paid volunteer time.
• Wellness resources including therapy, coaching, meditation, and emotional, physical, social, and financial support.