Senior SRE (GCP/Kubernetes)

Location: Work from anywhere; fully remote

Company

hirify.global develops an open-source universal orchestration platform for data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems. hirify.global Cloud is its managed SaaS edition, running isolated dedicated customer stacks and currently serving production workloads in Beta.

What you will do

• Contribute to the target architecture of hirify.global Cloud on GCP, including dedicated customer clusters, networks, databases, queues, templating, versioning, and the Beta-to-GA path.
• Write RFCs and ADRs, define SLOs, error budgets, SLIs, dashboards, and burn-rate alerts.
• Build Terraform modules and Helm charts for a fleet of identical customer environments and automate provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backups, migrations, and decommissioning.
• Operate releases through ArgoCD and GitHub Actions, including progressive rollouts, rollback, and upgrade safety.
• Extend observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; participate in on-call, lead incidents, write runbooks and blameless postmortems, and deliver follow-up fixes.
• Improve GCP cost efficiency and platform security, plan capacity, support autoscaling, and collaborate with core engineering on product improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with production ownership of systems built.
• Deep production-grade Kubernetes experience operating multiple production clusters, including upgrades, configuration drift, networking, and resource sizing.
• Strong Google Cloud experience with GKE, IAM, VPC networking, private clusters, load balancing, and managed data services; equivalent AWS or Azure experience is not a substitute.
• Strong Terraform experience building reusable modules and managing state across many environments.
• Ability to design and document systems, including RFCs or design documents and their architectural trade-offs.
• Real on-call and incident-response experience, including postmortems and durable remediation.
• Experience operating SaaS production systems for paying customers with meaningful SLOs.
• Fluent English and comfort working autonomously in a fully remote environment.
• Pragmatic decision-making and the ability to explain technical trade-offs.

Nice to have

• Experience running untrusted or user-defined code, including sandboxing, gVisor, or node-pool isolation.
• Experience building or operating fleet control planes for per-customer environments, such as Kubernetes operators, Crossplane, GKE Fleet, Config Sync, or custom provisioning services.
• GCP FinOps experience with per-customer cost attribution, committed-use discounts, or spot node pools.
• Infrastructure-side exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as hirify.global, Airflow, or Temporal, or with the JVM in production.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work from anywhere, with access to coworking spaces worldwide.
• Hands-on senior individual contributor role with substantial platform ownership and direct input into architecture.
• Work alongside the Lead SRE, another SRE, platform engineering, and security engineering in a team of three SREs.
• Participation in an on-call rotation and incident-response practice.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus home-office equipment.
• Six-month progression from onboarding and shadowing on-call to owning platform components end to end.

Hiring process

• The process typically takes 2–3 weeks and can be adjusted if needed.
• Introductory call with the CEO, followed by a two-hour asynchronous technical scenario and practical assessment: write a short hirify.global Cloud design specification for GKE and Terraform and implement one part.
• Technical review with the CTO covering the specification, code, and architectural trade-offs.