Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: San Francisco, United States; onsite

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing Series A startup building the Agent Cloud and infrastructure for AI labs and consumer and enterprise agents.

What you will do

• Build and maintain versioned Terraform modules, Helm charts, and Kubernetes configurations for EKS, GKE, and AKS deployments.
• Own production reliability for customer cluster infrastructure, improving monitoring, alerting, capacity management, recovery, and recurring issue resolution.
• Develop reusable infrastructure packages with configuration interfaces, compatibility checks, release processes, and validation for installation, scaling, upgrades, rollbacks, and security patches.
• Diagnose Kubernetes, cloud networking, IAM, certificates, storage, and private-connectivity issues across customer environments.
• Build automation, deployment validation, drift detection, diagnostics, tests, and runbooks, while contributing code to orchestration services.
• Collaborate with customer infrastructure and security teams, FDE, Solutions, and Support on access controls, secrets, isolation, auditability, complex deployments, and escalations; participate in production on-call.

Requirements

• 5+ years of production SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience operating business-critical services.
• Deep experience operating and debugging production Kubernetes clusters, including networking, access control, node lifecycle, scheduling, autoscaling, and storage.
• Strong Terraform and Helm skills, including production module and chart development, versioning, testing, and upgrades.
• Deep expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure, with the ability to work across providers and understand cloud networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including process isolation, filesystems, DNS, TCP/IP, and resource-constraint troubleshooting.
• Experience using metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose production issues and test recovery procedures.
• Ability to write automation in Go, Python, Bash, or similar and contribute tested changes to existing services.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs, resolve deployment issues with customer infrastructure teams, and take problems from investigation through production fixes.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents or applications that use tools, execute code, or run in sandboxes.
• BYOC, self-hosted, or managed enterprise software in customer-controlled infrastructure; large-scale Kubernetes fleet operations.
• GitOps, Argo CD, Flux, Kubernetes operators, or custom controllers.
• Air-gapped or on-premises deployments and stringent enterprise security.
• OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar observability tools.
• Firecracker, microVMs, sandbox isolation, untrusted-workload infrastructure, deployment automation, internal infrastructure platforms, or open-source infrastructure contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person offices in San Francisco and Prague, with 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home.
• Healthcare, vision, and dental insurance.
• Unlimited paid time off and 401(k).
• Additional perks for in-office employees.