Staff Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in the Soho office in New York City, United States

Salary: $220K–$270K annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building an AI operating system for revenue that helps finance and accounting teams manage customer, contract, billing, and accounting workflows with controls, auditability, and human oversight.

What you will do

• Set infrastructure direction for the AWS environment and evolve the platform, including migration from ECS/Fargate to a more scalable runtime.
• Build infrastructure as code and container foundations using Terraform and Docker.
• Develop CI/CD systems with GitHub Actions, emphasizing automation, safety, developer experience, ephemeral environments, and preview deployments.
• Establish observability standards across metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead high-severity incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements across engineering teams.
• Write production-quality code and automation, design resilient distributed systems, and mentor engineers on infrastructure practices.

Requirements

• On-site work in the Soho office in New York City is required.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including ECS/Fargate, and leading platform-level change.
• Expertise with Terraform, Docker, Git workflows, CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, and solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm.
• Deep experience with observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale, leading incidents, debugging live production issues, running blameless postmortems, and influencing infrastructure decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience owning infrastructure at a high-growth startup.
• Experience operating Kafka or a similar distributed messaging system at scale.
• Experience building developer tooling adopted by engineering teams.
• Prisma expertise.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Unlimited PTO and parental leave of up to 12 weeks.
• Up to 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• Lunch provided through Sharebite and dinner for later in-office days.
• Tax-free commuter and parking benefits, voluntary insurance programs, an Employee Assistance Program, and free One Medical membership.
• 401(k) plan.