Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote within Canada

Salary: $151,000–$201,000/year in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario; $135,900–$185,900/year in other Canadian locations

Company

hirify.global provides active insurance and cybersecurity tools designed to help businesses prevent and mitigate digital risk.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale production infrastructure using AWS and Terraform.
• Improve platform resilience through failure-based testing, automated recovery, and capacity planning.
• Build reusable platform components and self-service tools that improve developer experience and reduce operational toil.
• Define observability standards covering metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO frameworks.
• Own infrastructure projects from scoping and planning through execution and rollout.
• Mentor engineers, shape infrastructure standards, collaborate on technical designs, and participate in a low-volume on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud engineering, or software development.
• Hands-on experience operating production environments in AWS.
• Proficiency in Go or Python and experience building production-grade automation, tooling, or libraries.
• Strong experience with Terraform and container orchestration platforms such as ECS or Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and reusable platform components.
• Understanding of observability, SLOs, failure-based testing, automated recovery, reliability practices, leadership, and communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Exposure to Kafka or other event-streaming systems.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
• Familiarity with systems security, compliance requirements, or hardening practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment for employees in Canada.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access.
• Mental and physical health wellness programs.

Hiring process

• Interviewed candidates receive an application status update within 45 days of the final interview.
• AI-assisted tools may help organize applications, while final hiring decisions are made by the human recruiting team.