Staff Engineer (SRE)

Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Annual salary: $110,000–$230,000

Company

hirify.global is a large United States auto insurer and a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, serving millions of customers nationwide.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate automation, self-service tools, dashboards, and data pipelines for incident management, on-call, paging, and troubleshooting.
• Build shared services, APIs, integrations, and data contracts that standardize incident response and reduce operational risk.
• Lead technical response during high-severity incidents, including troubleshooting, impact analysis, cross-team coordination, and safe service restoration.
• Lead post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Drive architecture reviews, deployment safety, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, testing, and production readiness across multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction, operational practices, and engineering culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including platform engineering, reliability engineering, backend engineering, distributed systems, or operational tooling.
• 6+ years of experience with architecture, system design, reliability, scalability, and technical leadership for production systems.
• Hands-on proficiency with multiple languages, including Go, Java, Python, and C#, plus Kubernetes and serverless technologies such as Knative.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or another cloud provider; SQL and NoSQL technologies; data pipelines; analytics; and operational dashboards.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, and PagerDuty or comparable observability and incident management platforms.
• Must participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and support high-severity production incidents.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spark, Trino, Superset, Power BI, and AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Inclusive and collaborative culture focused on shared success and continuous improvement.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility supporting employee well-being.
• Engineering practices emphasize ownership, operational excellence, psychological safety, and learning from incidents.

Hiring process

• Selection considers the role's scope, responsibilities, experience, education, training, work location, and business factors.
• hirify.global will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.