Senior Staff Engineer (SRE)

Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Annual salary: $120,000–$260,000

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, data pipelines, APIs, and shared services for incident management and on-call operations.
• Improve detection, troubleshooting, recovery, runbooks, paging, and post-incident processes across engineering teams.
• Lead technical response during high-severity incidents, coordinating troubleshooting, impact analysis, and safe service restoration.
• Lead root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, corrective actions, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Set engineering standards for architecture, deployment, testing, observability, security, and production readiness.
• Partner with SRE, platform, infrastructure, security, product, and business stakeholders while mentoring senior engineers and teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience and 8+ years in architecture, system reliability, scalability, or technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience with multiple languages, including Go, Java, Python, and C#, and production systems running on Kubernetes and serverless technologies.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud platforms; SQL and NoSQL technologies; data pipelines; analytics; and operational dashboards.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, PagerDuty, and incident-management or observability platforms.
• Strong incident forensics, root-cause analysis, distributed-systems design, reliability engineering, and technical communication skills.
• Must participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and support high-severity production incidents.

Nice to have

• Experience with platform engineering, backend engineering, distributed systems, operational tooling, or complex hybrid environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

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.
• Engineers follow a “You Build It, You Run It” model with ownership of the systems they build and operate.

Hiring process

• Selection considers role scope, experience, education, training, work location, and business factors.