Automation & Tools Engineer

TL;DR

Automation & Tools Engineer (DevOps/SRE): Automating and maintaining the infrastructure that powers the core platform, including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems with an accent on build and deployment systems, as well as configuration management. Focus on improving system reliability and performance through automation and observability.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco

Salary: $170K - $190K

Company

hirify.global is solving real-world enterprise problems.

What you will do

• Automate and control datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning.
• Create and configure tools for datacenter provisioning, configuration management, and observability.
• Improve developer experience by providing self-service tools.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Tools development, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Good programming skills with IaC languages such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize.
• Good programming skills with general-purpose languages such as Python or Go.
• Deep experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with build configuration tools, software dependency management and C++.
• Experience with datacenter automation such as system imaging and configuration management.
• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.).
• Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
• Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure.
• A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture.
• The ability to influence how our platform scales.
• An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact.