Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure (Web3)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Web3): Defining and implementing operational excellence for a rapidly growing sports company with an accent on incident response, observability, and SLOs. Focus on infrastructure preparation and capacity management for high-traffic events and improving developer experience.

Location: United States/Remote

Salary: $160,000 and $240,000

Company

hirify.global makes sports more fun by building multiple games and products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the incident response process, defining procedures, tools, and best practices.
• Guide teams in establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including setting up alerts and reporting systems.
• Lead capacity planning initiatives, focusing on both short and long-term scalability while optimizing costs.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery plans, including regular testing and regulatory compliance.
• Manage launch and event planning for high-traffic occasions, focusing on infrastructure preparation and capacity management.
• Act as an internal expert and consultant for monitoring tools like Datadog and Pagerduty and infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communicator and collaborative by nature.
• Comfortable working with an IDE, multiple languages, multiple web application frameworks, AWS services, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
• Ability to work independently to learn new languages/technologies as needed.
• Enjoy deploying changes to production quickly, multiple times a week if necessary.
• Enjoy using research, data, and experiments to make decisions.
• Enjoy working directly with customers (generally engineers or other people inside the company).

Nice to have

• Experience with PostgreSQL SQL query optimization, tweaking autovacuum settings, table statistics, different index types, etc.
• Experience with Redis / Valkey Optimization.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools.
• Experience working as a web application developer, frontend or backend, especially in React and Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Home office stipend.
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce.
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents.
• Expected to gather 2-3 times per year for team and company offsites, trainings, and more.