Team Lead, SRE

TL;DR

Team Lead, SRE: Building and leading a high-performing SRE team that partners with product, platform, and security engineering to make systems reliable, scalable, and observable from the ground up, with an accent on driving adoption of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs/error budgets) and operational excellence. Focus on leading software-first reliability investments, improving overall operability, resilience, and security of the services, and coordinating major incidents.

Location: Remote, must be permanently located in Romania

Company

hirify.global is a global market leader in data resilience, providing data backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence solutions to over 550,000 customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Hire, onboard, and develop your SRE team, fostering a culture of learning.
• Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with service owners.
• Run reliability reviews and ensure accountability for outcomes.
• Ensure incident response readiness and lead major incident coordination.
• Lead software-first reliability investments, including observability and resilience testing.
• Drive platform improvements and internal tools development.

Requirements

• 3+ years in managing Software, Platform, and/or Reliability Engineering.
• Experience in IT Platform Engineering or Software Development.
• Demonstrable experience leading engineering teams to predictably deliver outcomes.
• Demonstrated success leading SLO/error-budget adoption and reliability programs.
• Experience with public clouds, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and observability.
• Hands-on incident management and postmortem practice.
• Readiness to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Must be permanently located in Romania.

Nice to have

• Experience operating a multi-region follow-the-sun on-call model.
• Background in chaos, resilience, or performance testing.
• Experience in building or scaling SRE teams and influencing org-wide standards.
• Coding background with experience improving service reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• 21 annual vacation days, plus additional days based on tenure and 4 extra global hirify.globale Days.
• 24 paid volunteer hours annually through hirify.global Cares.
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Monthly lifestyle and daily meal benefits (40 RON/day via Edenred and 600 RON/month cafeteria platform).
• Life insurance, critical illness, and disability coverage, plus vision reimbursement.
• Free access to Bookster library platform.
• Opportunities for learning and growth through on-demand libraries, mentoring, and workshops.