Senior Application Reliability Engineer (Java)

TL;DR

Senior Application Reliability Engineer (Java): Identifying and resolving reliability gaps in Java applications, implementing resilience patterns, and guiding development teams on stability improvements. Focus on troubleshooting production systems, instrumenting with OpenTelemetry, and driving cross-team initiatives for operational excellence.

Location: Remote, Hybrid or Onsite in Bulgaria or Poland

Company

hirify.global is an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, partnering with Fortune 500 clients on digital transformation and AI platforms.

What you will do

• Review Java services to identify and address reliability gaps.
• Introduce and implement resilience patterns like rate limiting, backpressure, and circuit breakers.
• Troubleshoot production Java systems, perform root cause analysis, and conduct load testing.
• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation for metrics, logs, and traces in Java services.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to explain reliability concepts and lead discussions on SLOs/SLIs.
• Drive cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, observability, and operational practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and tying them to release velocity and operational decision-making.
• Experience creating or improving Service Level Contracts across distributed systems.
• Ability to apply failure-mode analysis, chaos practices, and resilience engineering patterns.
• Deep understanding of traffic management techniques: rate limiting, backpressure, load shedding, circuit breakers, concurrency limits.
• Strong familiarity with container orchestration (K8s, ECS) from a production reliability perspective rather than simple deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience implementing or improving distributed tracing, structured logging, and actionable metrics.
• Experience running or participating in incident response, including on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems.
• English: Intermediate+ required

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work options including in-office, hybrid, or remote.
• Opportunities for international projects and ongoing learning with reimbursement.
• Medical healthcare and a well-being program.
• Recognition programs and team events.
• Referral bonuses and top-tier equipment provision.
• Culture that leads with trust, respect, open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship.