Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: New York, NY, United States

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

Company

hirify.global develops education products intended to make learning universally accessible, serving more than half a billion learners worldwide.

What you will do

• Identify sources of instability in large-scale distributed systems and drive operational excellence.
• Support, diagnose, and debug core infrastructure in production.
• Provide system design consulting, develop software platforms and frameworks, and conduct launch reviews.
• Perform root cause analysis and maintain sustainable postmortem and incident-response practices.
• 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.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, or Nomad.
• Ability to work from the New York, NY location.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Work on large-scope projects supporting a massive global user base.
• Opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Employee benefits supporting holistic well-being.
• AI-assisted application review is used during the hiring process, with final decisions made by recruiting and hiring teams.