Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $178,000–$210,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides open cloud object storage designed to reduce infrastructure cost and complexity for customers and partners.

What you will do

• Hire, lead, mentor, and develop Site Reliability Engineers, including coaching, career development, and performance management.
• Manage engineering managers as required and establish team goals, reliability priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop automation for deploying storage vaults, core servers, and supporting infrastructure.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, vulnerability management, patching, and operational procedures across production systems.
• Lead reliability initiatives, SLA analysis, major incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Operations, customers, vendors, and service providers to improve resilient system design and reliable production operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure, or production operations, including significant engineering leadership experience.
• Experience leading reliability or infrastructure organizations operating large-scale, production-grade systems.
• Experience building, managing, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Strong understanding of deploying and managing large fleets of Linux hosts with an emphasis on automation.
• Strong knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, or comparable platforms.
• Experience establishing operational procedures, runbooks, incident processes, and reliability practices at scale.
• Strong understanding of storage systems, including storage performance, sharding, distributed architectures, and storage algorithms, as well as load balancing technologies such as IPVS or comparable technologies.
• Experience managing security-focused infrastructure operations, including patching, hardening, vulnerability identification, and remediation.
• Ability to lead major incidents and post-incident processes, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Experience using automation and AI-assisted technologies to improve engineering productivity, system performance, operational efficiency, or scalability.
• Ability to own complex problems and drive initiatives from discovery through resolution, with strong communication and collaboration skills across technical, executive, customer, vendor, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience operating infrastructure at hyperscale or within a hyperscaler environment.
• Experience in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, service provider, storage, or large-scale distributed systems environments.
• Experience with object storage or other large-scale storage platforms.
• Familiarity with ITIL or OSS operational practices.
• Experience defining, managing, and improving SLOs and SLAs.
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or other major cloud platforms.
• Experience leading teams through significant infrastructure scaling, reliability, or operational transformation initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work for U.S.-based employees.
• Equity grants, annual company bonus, and employee stock purchase plan for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for eligible employees and family members, plus a 401(k) program.
• Flexible vacation policy, parental leave, childcare support, fertility treatment and family-building support.
• MacBook Pro and workstation support, learning and development opportunities, commuter benefits where applicable, and a culture supporting work-life balance.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.