Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote; candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Annual base salary: $140,000–$155,000 CAD per year, plus discretionary bonus and/or commission.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered technology for audit and accounting professionals, serving organizations across 130 countries and supporting financial reporting workflows.

What you will do

• Drive reliability engineering and operational excellence for mission-critical AWS and Kubernetes services.
• Design and improve deployment, release, rollback, CI/CD, automation, governance, and policy controls.
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, runbooks, and reliability standards.
• Lead high-severity incident response, communication, resolution, and post-incident reviews.
• Architect distributed systems, optimize platform resilience and runtime performance, and reduce operational toil.
• Mentor engineers on cloud-native technologies, SRE principles, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related cloud-native engineering roles.
• Deep AWS expertise, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, cloud networking, and security best practices.
• Advanced experience operating and scaling production Kubernetes environments, including architecture, controllers, Gateway API, ingress, and service networking.
• Strong hands-on Istio experience covering traffic management, security, observability, and resiliency.
• Proven Infrastructure as Code expertise, preferably with AWS CDK.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization, incident management, distributed-systems, and resilience-engineering experience.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, SLIs, SLOs, runbooks, and reliability metrics.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js; experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience implementing zero-trust architectures, mTLS, service-to-service security controls, automated testing, code reviews, autoscaling, disruption management, failure testing, and safe deployment strategies.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with canary, blue/green, and feature-flag-based progressive delivery.
• Experience in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service engineering tooling.
• Cloud-native certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, KCNA, or equivalent advanced Kubernetes expertise, including Kubestronaut certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time permanent position with flexible remote work options.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, recognition programs, performance bonuses, and generous time off.
• Global, diverse, and inclusive work environment with opportunities for learning, career development, and collaboration.
• Successful candidates undergo background screening, which may include identity, criminal record, and reference checks as appropriate.
• Employees must follow security best practices and secure handling guidelines when accessing company data and business information.