Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering): Building and optimizing high-scale cloud services with an accent on platform uptime, performance, and health data visualization. Focus on transforming monitoring strategy into active, high-fidelity signals for real-time alerting and incident response, and integrating reliability testing into software development lifecycles.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, Seattle, Palo Alto, or Bellevue, USA

Company

hirify.global is a technology organization managing high-level frameworks to measure platform uptime and performance, bridging reporting and individual engineering teams.

What you will do

• Provide input into long-range platform requirements and operational guidelines, making health data actionable for service owners.
• Analyze and understand service telemetry, driving continuous improvement of health signals.
• Partner with internal engineering teams to integrate global availability standards into monitoring pipelines and automated alerting flows.
• Identify and mitigate onboarding friction by leveraging automated test suites for streamlined reliability signals.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for centralized infrastructure services (logging, monitoring, and data platforms).
• Quarterback the integration of failure signals into standard engineering workflows, ensuring automated work items and proactive investigations.

Requirements

• A related technical degree.
• 5+ years of proven experience in production environments (software engineer, systems engineer, service owner, or lead developer).
• Fluency in Java or a similar object-oriented language (Python, C++, etc.).
• Deep understanding of telemetry systems and experience building or managing production monitoring and alerting frameworks.
• Experience using Linux environments and the ability to navigate complex, distributed system architectures.
• Familiarity with core web technologies: HTTP, JSON, REST, and XML.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in a Service Owner or Technical Lead role within a high-scale, multi-tenant cloud environment.
• Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and industry-standard availability best practices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Integration testing, or Chaos Engineering).
• Log parsing and data analysis experience using platforms such as Splunk or ELK.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc.).

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of the Availability Standards team, influencing platform uptime and performance.
• Follow a consultative engineering approach, partnering with service owners.
• Advocate for the customer and influence the product roadmap by ensuring world-class availability.
• Work within a team focused on maintaining world-class availability.