Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote in the United States, except Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Roles may be based internationally in some cases; employment contracts outside the US and Ireland are powered by Rippling.

Salary: $175,000–$238,000 annual base pay, with a typical midpoint of $207,000. Total compensation also includes equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides logistics technology and infrastructure that connect merchants with carriers through a single API and dashboard.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a platform-focused SRE team through technical mentorship, career development, and performance management.
• Build internal platforms, Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment tooling, and self-service capabilities for product engineering teams.
• Manage observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and reliability measurement.
• Establish SLO, SLI, and error-budget frameworks while improving deployment success, build times, and developer experience.
• Drive automation, infrastructure cost optimization, capacity planning, and operational excellence across the cloud platform.
• Lead Sev1 incident response, manage the on-call rotation, and design disaster recovery, security, and compliance capabilities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience and 9+ years as a software or systems engineer.
• Expertise building internal platforms and tooling for other engineering teams, including production Kubernetes platforms.
• Deep experience with AWS or GCP, including networking, compute, storage, and managed services.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation, infrastructure as code, and observability platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language for tooling and automation.
• Experience with reliability frameworks, disaster recovery, infrastructure security, compliance, and cross-functional communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, globally distributed work environment with flexible working hours.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 90% covered by the company including dependents.
• Flexible vacation policy, a company-wide winter slowdown, and three volunteer days off.
• Work-from-home stipend, pet coverage, charity donation matching, and individual learning support.
• Professional development programs, coaching, and regular company and local gatherings.