Senior Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Designing, implementing, and evolving large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure for a global SaaS platform with an accent on reliability and scalability initiatives, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices. Focus on proactively identifying systemic reliability issues, leading major incident response, and integrating reliability principles into the development lifecycle.

Location: Remote work is restricted to Malaysia only. hirify.global does not sponsor work visas or relocation.

Company

hirify.global is a leading database company making a significant impact globally, providing the backbone for applications used daily by companies, including 75% of the Fortune 500.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and evolve large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure supporting a global SaaS platform.
• Lead reliability and scalability initiatives, driving automation and resilience through infrastructure-as-code and GitOps.
• Proactively identify and remediate systemic reliability issues, ensuring high service availability and performance.
• Collaborate with software and platform teams to integrate reliability principles, SLOs, and observability standards.
• Act as a key technical leader during major incidents, coordinating response efforts and conducting root cause analysis.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by defining infrastructure patterns and mentoring other engineers.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of hands-on experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer in production cloud environments.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes operations and ecosystem tooling in production-scale clusters.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt for designing modular, reusable, and secure IaC components.
• Solid understanding of GitOps principles and deployment automation using ArgoCD or similar tools.
• Deep experience with Linux systems administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go preferred).
• Strong understanding of observability concepts and experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.
• Experience participating in or leading on-call rotations, handling incident response, and conducting post-incident reviews.
• English: B2 required.
• Work authorization for Malaysia is required, as hirify.global does not sponsor work visas.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with large-scale multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters or hybrid cloud setups.
• Experience building or operating self-healing and auto-scaling systems.
• Certification in one or more major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD).
• Contributions to open-source projects, reliability frameworks, or IaC tooling.
• Experience mentoring teams and promoting engineering excellence across an organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Impact the world of technology by pushing boundaries in technology and business models.
• Collaborate with high-caliber colleagues around the world, offering unparalleled learning and growth opportunities.
• Provide a very competitive compensation package and 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays).
• Offer a massive degree of flexibility and freedom.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone.