Site Reliability Engineering Lead (AI)

Location: Düsseldorf, Germany; hybrid work with up to 2 work-from-home days per week. Remote work from Germany or selected countries abroad is available for up to 20 days per year.

Company

hirify.global operates a hotel metasearch engine that helps millions of travelers compare prices across booking sites using real-time auction, machine learning, and large-scale data infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead a team of eight SREs and network engineers and define the direction of the Hybrid Platform team.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure spanning Google Cloud, data centres, campus networks, and hybrid connectivity.
• Shape architecture, troubleshoot critical incidents, and contribute to automation and infrastructure as code.
• Improve platform security, availability, performance, cost efficiency, self-service capabilities, and reliability targets.
• Build sustainable on-call rotations, blameless postmortems, and a culture focused on resolving root causes.
• Manage hardware lifecycles, vendors, contracts, budgets, hiring, coaching, career development, priorities, and team OKRs.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with cloud and on-premise data centre and network infrastructure, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and IP fabric architectures.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring infrastructure, network, or platform engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills for working with engineers, executives, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and daily use of AI tools in real workflows.
• Ability to set data-driven reliability, capacity, and cost goals and participate in critical incident escalation.
• Ability to work in the hybrid Düsseldorf setup is required; visa support is available for relocation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Juniper routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Google Cloud networking, Interconnect, VPN, data centre hardware, colocation, or hardware vendor management.
• Cloud cost management, FinOps, or migrations between on-premise and cloud environments.
• Open source involvement.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous teams with direct access to production and ownership of technical decisions.
• Continuous deployment, short feedback loops, and dedicated time for experimentation and AI-powered engineering workflows.
• Learning opportunities including technical meetups, guilds, architecture reviews, certifications, conferences, courses, and a campus library.
• Self-determined vacation with a minimum of 25 days, flexible working hours, and remote work options.
• Visa support, relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, and free language classes are available for relocation.
• Campus canteen, snacks and drinks, gym and sports options, ergonomic workspaces, childcare support, and a kids room.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screening call.
• Technical interview with two team members and a Profile Dynamics assessment.
• Final interview with team and department leads.