Head of Site Reliability Engineering (AI)

Location: Santa Clara, United States; hybrid

Salary: $195,000–$285,000 per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities

Company

hirify.global develops purpose-built AI inference silicon and the software and infrastructure that support generative AI applications.

What you will do

• Build and lead the SRE function, define its charter, establish SRE practices, and hire and develop a team of 1–3 SRE engineers.
• Direct Data Center & Lab Technician operations across on-premises and colocation facilities.
• Own 24×7 reliability for colocation, on-premises lab clusters, cloud environments, and customer-facing platform services.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident management, and root-cause analysis processes.
• Own observability, infrastructure-as-code automation, self-healing systems, FinOps, capacity planning, and workload placement.
• Lead the migration from ad-hoc JBOD storage to an enterprise-grade shared storage platform across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or production engineering, plus 5+ years leading SRE or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Deep Linux expertise, including bare-metal operations, NAS/SAN, NFS/SMB, snapshots, replication, and hybrid-cloud storage.
• Production-scale Terraform and Ansible experience, Kubernetes operations, and hands-on operation of colocation and on-premises hardware.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk, plus strong Python and/or Go scripting skills.
• Ability to communicate infrastructure health and operational risk to senior and non-technical stakeholders and build structure in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with customer-facing infrastructure, multi-cloud hybrid operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, or FinOps.
• Knowledge of InfiniBand, RoCE, NVLink, HPC schedulers such as Slurm or LSF, and structured incident or change management frameworks.
• Technical writing, conference presentations, or open-source contributions in reliability, observability, or HPC infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and inclusive environment focused on respect, humility, direct communication, and execution.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) and an employee wellbeing-focused rewards package.
• Equity and performance-based bonus opportunities.