Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Reliability (Resilience) (Kubernetes)

Location: Portugal

Base salary: €62,800–€84,300 per year. The role has no variable compensation component.

Company

hirify.global develops the hirify.global Search AI Platform and cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability.

What you will do

• Design, build, scale, and mature the multi-cloud platform supporting hirify.global Cloud Hosted and Serverless services.
• Develop software, tooling, and automation for platform infrastructure and system engineering.
• Lead initiatives that improve the reliability and scalability of hirify.global’s global infrastructure.
• Respond to major incidents, prevent repeated customer impact, and improve problem-management practices.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation, primarily during working hours.
• Collaborate with distributed engineering teams through inclusive communication, coaching, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience with a customer-first approach to operational problems and site reliability engineering.
• Experience operating SaaS products in public cloud environments, preferably using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Crossplane.
• Experience building or operating Kubernetes infrastructure at scale across multiple cloud providers.
• Ability to write non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages and work with containerized services such as Docker.
• Professional Linux system administration experience on large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with alerting, metrics, major incident management, and the hirify.global Stack or comparable observability systems such as Prometheus, Graphite, or Influx.

Nice to have

• Experience with public cloud and managed Kubernetes services.
• Experience working remotely or in globally distributed teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, collaborative environment focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
• Generous vacation allowance and at least 16 weeks of parental leave.
• Up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent in matched charitable donations and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.