Site Reliability Engineer (Defense Systems)

Location: Allen, Texas, or Torrance, California. The position may require access to classified information or restricted U.S. Government sites, systems, or information, subject to applicable eligibility and authorization requirements.

Company

hirify.global develops and delivers advanced defense systems.

What you will do

• Own reliability, availability, latency, capacity, recovery expectations, and operational health for critical engineering services.
• Investigate and resolve complex incidents across applications, Linux, networking, storage, Kubernetes, cloud, and other system layers.
• Build and improve monitoring, observability, alerting, and diagnostic systems.
• Analyze performance and capacity across compute, memory, storage, networking, connections, and other constrained resources.
• Lead root cause analyses, postmortems, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with DevOps, Cloud, Software, Security, Test, and IT teams and participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline supporting production or mission-critical systems.
• Strong Linux expertise covering CPU, memory, storage, networking, processes, sockets, system services, and performance and capacity concepts.
• Experience operating observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
• Strong networking and application fundamentals, including TCP, TLS, HTTP, DNS, reverse proxies, load balancers, connection states, and timeouts.
• Ability to satisfy applicable U.S. Government security clearance, authorization, citizenship, or other eligibility requirements if designated for the position. Access to export-controlled information requires eligibility without additional export licensing.

Culture & Benefits

• Significant ownership and direct impact in an early-stage organization.
• Cross-functional collaboration across engineering and infrastructure disciplines.
• Generous benefits package.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.