Engineering Manager (Site Reliability Engineering)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Site Reliability Engineering): Leading and nurturing a team to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of SaaS products with an accent on SRE practices, observability, and developer experience. Focus on building sustainable incident response, multi-cloud architecture preparation, and integrating AI tools for operational efficiency.

Location: Hybrid with presence in Berlin office

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing startup specializing in Generative AI and SaaS platforms for Conversational AI in customer service, with offices in Berlin, Munich, and New York.

What you will do

• Build and nurture a supportive SRE and developer experience team.
• Establish and promote SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, error budgets, and postmortems.
• Create observability strategies using Datadog and ELK stack.
• Support incident response and automation with GitHub Actions and Terraform to improve MTTR.
• Integrate reliability into CI/CD pipelines and foster Kubernetes infrastructure best practices.
• Guide teams on Azure cloud usage and prepare for multi-cloud architectures.

Requirements

• Location: Hybrid work with presence in Berlin office
• Experience supporting SRE, DevOps, or platform teams focused on reliability and collaboration.
• Hands-on knowledge of SRE principles and observability tools (Datadog, ELK).
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), and Azure cloud.
• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and incident management.
• Commitment to building inclusive teams and supporting developer wellbeing.

Culture & Benefits

• Diverse team with 40+ nationalities and flat hierarchies.
• Competitive compensation and equity package.
• Flexible working hours, 28 vacation days, and workation opportunities.
• Training and development budget for continuous growth.
• Regular team events and social activities.
• Hybrid work environment with office presence in Berlin on certain days.

Hiring process

• Recruiter video call.
• Technical peer interview.
• 360° technical interview loop.
• Bar raiser interview.