Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Tooling & Automation

Location: United States, Remote

Company

hirify.global develops software and operates distributed data infrastructure for customer environments, including restricted and air-gapped deployments.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade tooling for SRE and operations teams, including fleet management, automation APIs, dashboards, and ChatOps integrations.
• Build deployment, upgrade, lifecycle, artifact, image distribution, update, and license tooling for air-gapped and disconnected hirify.global environments.
• Develop diagnostics, support-bundle, and offline telemetry capabilities for clusters with limited or no connectivity.
• Deploy and maintain reliable Kubernetes clusters and hirify.global deployments across multiple cloud platforms, improving availability and performance.
• Build and optimize CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response systems; conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive fixes in code.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, product, support, and customers, including participation in weekday business-hours and once-monthly weekend on-call coverage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience, including at least five years as an SRE or in a similar role supporting complex distributed systems.
• Production software engineering experience with Go, Python, or Rust, including designing and owning services, APIs, controllers, or platforms rather than only scripts.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, Azure, or Linode.
• Experience with monitoring and debugging tools such as Prometheus, Vector, Grafana, Superset, or Kibana.
• Experience with SQL databases; PostgreSQL familiarity is not required.
• Strong Linux experience, including performance tuning and system-level troubleshooting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to customers and cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying or supporting software in air-gapped, on-premises, or other restricted-network environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely as part of a distributed engineering team collaborating worldwide.
• Provide round-the-clock support through global team collaboration.
• Participate in weekday business-hours and once-monthly weekend on-call shifts.
• Contribute to SRE best practices and operational excellence across the organization.

Hiring process

• Complete the application form and attach a resume.
• Cover letter and relevant references may be required depending on the role; follow the job description instructions.