Senior Observability Systems Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $178,000–$200,000 annual base pay, plus a 10% target annual bonus and RSUs.

Company

hirify.global provides large-scale cloud storage and operates infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of customers.

What you will do

• Set technical direction and standards for organization-wide observability, including instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, and architecture decisions.
• Own and evolve metrics, logging, and distributed tracing platforms across multiple data centers.
• Operate and expand VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Consul service discovery, OpenSearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code and automation across Kubernetes clusters and Debian-based bare-metal servers.
• Lead observability for Ceph storage and collaborate with SRE and Network Engineering on service discovery, BGP, routing, and network visibility.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and produce design documents, runbooks, and architectural decision records.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability, including technical leadership of infrastructure or platform work.
• Deep experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, PromQL, Alertmanager, or equivalent metrics platforms operated at scale.
• Experience with log aggregation pipelines and distributed tracing, including instrumentation strategy.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and Linux internals; Debian or Ubuntu experience is preferred.
• Experience mentoring engineers and communicating across engineering, SRE, security, and leadership.
• Must be based in the United States for this remote role.

Nice to have

• Experience evaluating or deploying AIOps tooling, alert correlation, deduplication, automated root cause analysis, or agentic AI systems.
• Familiarity with Anthropic or OpenAI APIs, self-hosted LLM inference, Ceph, BGP, network observability, or multi-data-center environments.
• Experience with incident management platforms, production secrets management, regulated environments, or storage and hyperscale infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with real infrastructure spanning multiple data centers and exabytes of storage.
• Collaborate on Kubernetes, Ceph, Vitess, KVM, and a custom storage platform.
• Join a team focused on engineering excellence, transparency, and operational rigor.
• Compensation includes base salary, a 10% target annual bonus, and RSUs.
• hirify.global emphasizes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.