Senior Engineering Manager (SRE)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (SRE): Leading and growing a high-performing SRE team, driving reliability, observability, and security of a global platform with an accent on evolving infrastructure, incident response, and scalable delivery systems. Focus on supporting technical decision-making at scale, fostering ownership, and collaborating with platform leadership.

Location: Paris, France

Salary: €114,332 – €126,367

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered platform for conversational commerce, aiming to make every customer interaction a personal, seamless, and intelligent relationship.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers.
• Set direction and priorities for key initiatives across reliability, observability, and security.
• Partner with Staff+ engineers to evolve infrastructure stack and SRE practices.
• Own incident response processes and drive post-incident learning across engineering.
• Oversee rollout of scalable delivery systems and practices (CI/CD, ArgoCD, GitLab, SLIs/SLOs).
• Support adoption of new technologies (Kafka, Flink, Debezium) with strong change management.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience managing senior-level infrastructure or platform engineers.
• 6+ years total experience in SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Experience leading through ambiguity and scaling systems in high-traffic, cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, and observability tools.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working cross-functionally.
• A pragmatic, people-first mindset with a strong sense of technical stewardship.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka, Flink, and large-scale data streaming architectures.
• Experience driving SOC2 or similar compliance efforts.
• Past work supporting production systems with 10k+ tenants or users per second.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity (90th percentile worldwide).
• 5-week vacation plus 2 weeks RTT; paid sick and parental leave.
• MacBook Pro and personal credit card for lunches (Swile).
• Private health insurance (Alan).
• Up to €700 to set up your home workstation.
• Up to €2000 annually for learning material (€1500) and wellness support (€500).
• Quarterly online company-wide summits and annual offsite team retreats.
• Access to premium AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Granola, Cursor & others) and an L&D budget to explore new ones.