Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Federal (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid, onsite three days a week in Santa Clara, California, USA. US citizenship is required due to the nature of assigned customers.

Salary: $118,400–$148,000 USD base pay annually, excluding bonus, equity, commission, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides the Zero Trust Exchange, a cloud security platform that protects customers from cyberattacks and data loss across global public and private infrastructure.

What you will do

• Maintain high availability across large-scale bare-metal Linux/BSD fleets, Kubernetes clusters, and custom routing stacks.
• Lead full-cycle incident response through cross-stack operating system, network, and application troubleshooting.
• Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, provisioning, configuration, and release deployments with Ansible, Python, and Go.
• Own metrics, logs, and traces using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, and define SLOs and error budgets.
• Conduct architectural reviews, kernel upgrades, capacity and performance tuning, and CI/CD validation before production rollouts.

Requirements

• US citizenship is required.
• At least 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering for high-scale, low-latency production platforms.
• Ability to write and debug executable code in Python, Go, or Bash and create Ansible playbooks and tasks.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals and kernel troubleshooting, including inodes, file descriptors, process states, and storage analysis.
• Comprehensive networking knowledge covering DNS, TLS, TCP/IP, and packet captures with tcpdump.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience applying AI-driven solutions within the relevant domain.

Nice to have

• Production experience with FreeBSD or other BSD operating systems.
• Experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal.
• Deep experience with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry or AI/ML and AIOps tools for automated root-cause analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership, collaboration, trust through outcomes, and continuous feedback.
• Health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave, and retirement options.
• Education reimbursement and in-office perks.
• Inclusive workplace focused on collaboration, belonging, and professional development.