Senior Staff Engineer - SRE (Incident Prevention)

Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Annual salary: $110,000–$260,000

Company

hirify.global is a large U.S. auto insurer and a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, serving millions of customers through technology and insurance services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate automation, self-service tools, dashboards, and data pipelines that scale correction-of-error workflows.
• Lead and improve the company-wide correction-of-error and post-incident review process.
• Moderate weekly reviews of qualified high-severity incidents and help teams produce accurate, actionable analyses.
• Perform root cause analysis across distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and observability data.
• Identify reliability gaps involving alerts, monitoring, runbooks, testing, and deployment controls.
• Partner with application engineering, platform, SRE, and operations teams to improve technology strategies and roadmaps.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience with architecture, system reliability, scalability, and technical leadership.
• Hands-on proficiency with multiple programming languages, including Go, Java, Python, and C#.
• Experience building production systems on Kubernetes and serverless technologies such as KNative in Azure and AWS.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, data pipelines, analytics, and operational dashboards.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, and PagerDuty.
• Must participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and support high-severity production incidents.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Engineering culture focused on reliability, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
• Senior technologists take part in high-severity incident leadership and production support.
• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment with competitive benefits and flexibility.
• hirify.global will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.