Data Platform Reliability Engineer (AI/Data)

Location: Arlington, Texas, United States; ability to travel overnight required.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded Fortune 500 homebuilder that constructs and sells homes and provides mortgage financing and title services.

What you will do

• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, health checks, and remediation using code and infrastructure-as-code.
• Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement practices.
• Implement observability across data pipelines, platform services, workloads, APIs, and AI services.
• Improve platform security, access, secrets management, resilience, disaster recovery, capacity, and performance.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability and operability into products before production launch.
• Represent reliability in discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities, while identifying and piloting practical data, AI, and digital opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, DataOps, cloud infrastructure, database or platform administration, or a related area.
• Strong automation skills with Python, PowerShell, Go, or comparable languages and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with observability, incident management, CI/CD, cloud security, reliability engineering, and production operations.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms and distributed systems.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization while balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operational realities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform/OpenTofu, Datadog/OpenTelemetry, Kafka or Azure Event Hubs, streaming platforms, Airflow/Dagster-class orchestration, LLM observability, AI workload observability, or comparable technologies.
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments.
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, flexible spending accounts, and life and disability insurance.
• Vacation, sick, personal time, and company holidays.
• Additional voluntary and company-provided benefits.
• Professional and ethical working environment focused on practical innovation, ownership, and business impact.