Lead Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $195,000–$240,000 per year for NY/CA; compensation may vary by hiring location.

Company

hirify.global operates a music distribution and services marketplace connecting independent artists, brands, and fans while helping creators retain ownership and earn royalties.

What you will do

• Partner with platform, data, QA, and product engineering teams to understand automation, infrastructure, monitoring, and security needs.
• Build tooling and processes that improve reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build and maintain an agentic vulnerability detection and mitigation pipeline with scanning, triage, proposed fixes, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
• Embed threat modeling, supply-chain hygiene, secrets management, and secure-by-default patterns into the development lifecycle.
• Lead security and reliability incident response, on-call operations, escalation handling, and coaching.
• Define company-level SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets while owning AWS infrastructure strategy and balancing scalability with cost.

Requirements

• Senior-to-staff experience as an SRE, platform engineer, or infrastructure engineer owning production reliability at scale.
• Hands-on application or infrastructure security experience.
• Practical experience building and shipping systems with LLMs and agentic technologies, including understanding their failure modes and the need for human oversight.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building tools and systems.
• Ability to coach engineering teams and improve their reliability and security practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Values entrepreneurial commitment, respectful challenge, resilience, proactive problem-solving, and transparency about uncertainty.
• Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Additional compensation opportunities may include bonuses and stock options, depending on the role and individual circumstances.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available during hiring and employment.

Hiring process

• Formal interview process required before receiving an offer.