Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps): Own and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of a large-scale backend platform on AWS with an accent on automation, observability, and incident management. Focus on designing resilient systems, reducing toil, and scaling infrastructure to support millions of users.

Location: San Francisco, CA, onsite 4–5 days per week

Salary: $230,000–$310,000 plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a product company building AI-powered creative tools for modern communication, valued at $2.1B with over $100M ARR and profitable since 2023.

What you will do

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of production systems primarily on AWS infrastructure
• Build observability infrastructure with metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Design automation to reduce toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident resolution
• Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive systemic improvements
• Partner with engineering teams on architecture reviews, SLOs/SLIs, and reliability best practices
• Manage and optimize infrastructure including compute, networking, databases, and managed services

Requirements

• Must have 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering with deep AWS expertise
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js for automation
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and database performance
• Strong incident management and debugging skills for complex production issues
• Work onsite in San Francisco 4–5 days per week

Nice to have

• Experience scaling SaaS applications to millions of users
• Background with real-time collaborative systems, Kafka, chaos engineering, or service mesh technologies
• AWS certifications or experience with security/compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

Culture & Benefits

• Warm, quirky, and curious culture valuing creativity and craftsmanship
• Small, passionate teams working on impactful projects
• Flexibility to work from home when focus matters most
• Fast-paced, creative, and occasionally chaotic environment