Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Portugal; remote contract.

Company

hirify.global builds marketplace ecosystems for buying and selling cars, finding homes and jobs, and trading secondhand goods across multiple international markets.

What you will do

• Support the scalability, availability, and efficiency of cloud and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Senior SREs to diagnose, resolve, and prevent production incidents.
• Automate operational tasks and manage configurations with scripting and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Monitor and maintain service health using observability platforms and dashboards.
• Deliver incremental tasks, estimate complexity, manage dependencies, and handle ambiguous requirements with guidance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and blameless postmortems while progressively taking ownership.

Requirements

• Motivation to learn SRE practices and build reliable, scalable systems.
• Foundational experience with at least one programming language, such as Python or Go, and interest in automation and scripting.
• Basic understanding of cloud environments, preferably AWS, and distributed systems concepts.
• Interest in Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, and exposure to CI/CD tools including GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with an ability to apply best practices.
• Ability to manage tasks reliably, communicate effectively, and maintain clear documentation.
• Interest in reliability engineering principles, including incident management, monitoring, and service level management.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and a 10% annual bonus.
• Training and conference budget.
• Health and life insurance.
• Remote contract and collaboration with European and international engineering hubs.
• Multicultural environment with more than 50 nationalities and opportunities to learn from experienced engineers.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview.
• Engineering Manager interview.
• Technical interview.