Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Location: Los Angeles or San Francisco, United States; hybrid work with teams in the office around four days a week

Salary: $75,000–$180,000 USD base salary per year

Company

hirify.global operates within WPP Media, WPP’s AI-driven media operating unit delivering media, data, partnerships, and personalization for global advertising campaigns.

What you will do

• Own production stability, system health, and observability for a mission-critical campaign governance and compliance platform running on GCP.
• Define observability strategy using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Error Reporting, Prometheus, PromQL, service level indicators, and service level objectives.
• Lead incident response, post-incident reviews, and root cause analysis across application, database, infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Read, debug, and implement minor fixes in the Python production codebase.
• Monitor execution flows, performance, data refreshes, automated checks, and compliance reporting.
• Lead the L2+ support squad through coaching, prioritization, runbooks, automation, and collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Quality Assurance.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure/platform engineering, including production systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience operating enterprise systems on GCP, including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Cloud Functions, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Strong Python and Bash skills for debugging production code, automating support tasks, parsing logs, and developing operational tools.
• Expertise with GCP observability tools, Prometheus, PromQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, and Terraform.
• Experience troubleshooting Firestore, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, as well as distributed systems and infrastructure-level issues.
• Experience leading or mentoring a technical squad and applying Incident, Problem, and Change Management practices across the software development lifecycle.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with frequent in-office collaboration and events.
• Medical, vision, dental, and group retirement plans.
• Significant paid time off and preferential partner discounts.
• Employee mental health awareness days and employee resource groups.
• Learning, professional development, and networking opportunities across WPP Media and WPP.