Site Reliability Engineering Team Lead (Principal SRE, Automotive AI)

Location: Remote - USA

Company

hirify.global develops automotive AI solutions, including cloud-native voice, gesture, and gaze systems used by global automakers.

What you will do

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering function and set technical direction across a distributed team.
• Own the reliability roadmap, SLI/SLO/SLA standards, on-call model, and high-risk production change approvals.
• Act as the Tier 2 technical escalation point for major incidents and drive actionable blameless postmortems.
• Lead Production Readiness and NFR reviews while embedding reliability practices into the SDLC.
• Set the direction for observability, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and CI/CD automation.
• Partner with development, DevOps, platform, and operations teams on architecture and shared infrastructure.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud platform roles, including team leadership or functional ownership.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, and public cloud platforms, primarily Azure as well as AWS and Google Cloud.
• Experience with observability tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, including Terraform or Flux.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Shell, or another scripting or programming language.
• Strong UNIX/Linux, networking, system configuration, performance debugging, and English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading distributed or multi-site technical teams.
• Background in high-availability service design, redundancy, failover, and blast-radius reduction.
• Experience with Loki, Thanos, Jira, or Confluence.
• Experience in automotive, embedded, or latency-sensitive production environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available for this position.
• Annual bonus opportunity and equity awards for eligible positions and levels.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, and company contribution to an RRSP.
• Blameless incident management and a focus on sustainable on-call operations.