Junior Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Junior Site Reliability Engineer (AI): Building and managing scalable, globally-distributed systems for site reliability with an accent on automation, infrastructure as code, and performance monitoring. Focus on troubleshooting site issues, leveraging AI tooling, and ensuring system uptime for over 100 million users.

Location: Must be located in the United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.

Company

hirify.global is a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems, focusing on helping users and growing engineers in a collaborative environment.

What you will do

• Work closely with engineers in supporting new features and services.
• Build tools to monitor site stability and performance, ensuring reliability and scalability while maintaining platform SLOs.
• Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Automate everything with Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform, leveraging an extensive suite of AI tooling.
• Develop custom tools when off-the-shelf solutions don’t work at hirify.global's scale and contribute upstream to open source projects.
• Participate in light on-call rotations with geographically distributed SRE teams.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Linux (Ubuntu or any distro).
• Command of a modern programming language like Python, Ruby, Go, Java, or C++.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Practical background in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible).
• Relevant experience with Linux containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes).
• A solid understanding of fundamental technologies like TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS.
• Exposure to monitoring concepts and best practices around performance, reliability, and security.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, in a collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
• £150 monthly reimbursement for remote working expenses and £75 caregiver reimbursement.
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support career growth.
• £75 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses and quarterly team offsites.