Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States; office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with additional in-office days possible for team or company events.

Base salary: $210,000–$235,000 annually, plus company bonus and equity opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered contract lifecycle management software using a large enterprise contract dataset.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for SRE and the cloud platform, partnering across engineering to define reliability, capacity, and platform roadmaps.
• Identify reliability risks, design solutions, and carry changes through production while reducing recurring failures and operational risk.
• Make architectural tradeoffs across security, scalability, and performance, and document technical decisions.
• Operate, tune, and scale relational and NoSQL databases, including monitoring, replication, query performance, and capacity management.
• Improve automation across build, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Participate in on-call coverage, lead complex production investigations, mentor engineers, review designs and code, and collaborate with product engineering, security, support, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership for business-critical systems.
• 5+ years developing and maintaining production software and tools in TypeScript or Python.
• Deep production experience operating Kubernetes, including troubleshooting scheduling, networking, and resource issues at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Production experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis, including query and index tuning, replication, monitoring, and scaling under load.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling, such as Terraform or Pulumi, CircleCI, and Argo CD.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud storage architecture, backup, and recovery.
• Experience using AI coding tools with sound judgment about their use and output validation.
• Strong troubleshooting, written and verbal communication, design documentation, incident writeups, influence leadership, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or operating multi-region systems.
• Experience sharding databases or operating databases on Kubernetes.
• Experience running AI or LLM infrastructure in production.
• Experience leading large-scale database, cluster, or service migrations with minimal downtime.
• Experience building and maintaining security in infrastructure and delivery pipelines; FedRAMP experience is a plus.
• GCP experience is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time US employment with medical, dental, and vision coverage, including dependent coverage options.
• Gender-neutral parental leave, compassionate leave, family-forming support, and paid time off.
• Monthly wellbeing and hybrid-work stipends, mental health support, and pre-tax commuter benefits for US employees.
• 401(k) plan with Fidelity and employer match for US employees.
• Regular team events and opportunities for professional growth and development.