Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: Leonberg, Germany; hybrid working model with in-person collaboration in the office, vehicle workshops and labs

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience and adapt across complex urban environments.

What you will do

• Monitor live system health using logs, metrics, traces, alerts and reliability dashboards.
• Investigate production incidents end to end, from hypothesis formation and data analysis through mitigation and root-cause resolution.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
• Build tools and automation that reduce manual operational work and accelerate issue detection and resolution.
• Develop service-level indicators and objectives, improve monitoring and alerting, and create automated checks and remediation workflows.
• Influence system design and improve reliability across software, infrastructure, networking and fleet operations.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role supporting live production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++ or Rust.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of observability practices and tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Splunk.
• Understanding of SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems across software, networking, operating systems and hardware-adjacent environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combining office collaboration with focused remote work.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Market-benchmarked salaries, meaningful equity and location-dependent benefits.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences and professional growth.
• Health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension benefits where applicable, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships and team socials.
• Ownership and influence in a company whose processes and ways of working are still being developed.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter call.
• Competency interviews followed by deep-dive technical interviews.
• Final interview, with interview formats explained in advance and scheduling adapted to availability.