Infrastructure Engineer (Observability)

TL;DR

Infrastructure Engineer (Observability): Building and operating high-throughput data services and observability infrastructure with an accent on API design, database performance, and scalability. Focus on orchestrating and scaling systems such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry Collector, and Vector while ensuring high uptime and industry-standard reliability practices across internal and external stakeholders.

Location: Fully Remote (Global)

Company

hirify.global is an open-source-first product company that builds tools developers love, with a globally distributed team across 40+ countries.

What you will do

• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to enforce org-wide practices for emitting and collecting telemetry.
• Own and operate the Kubernetes infrastructure of the observability team.
• Define documentation, operational flows, and engineering standards for logging, tracing, and metrics systems.
• Ensure industry-standard deployment and reliability practices are used.
• Develop industry-leading reliability software for observability systems.
• Orchestrate and scale systems such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry Collector, and Vector.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role.
• Experience operating and supporting clustered applications in production environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, including administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with at least one Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, OpenTofu).
• Experience with telemetry tooling such as OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS services.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote with global hiring and WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership).
• Tech allowance for ideal work environment setup.
• 100% health insurance coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual off-sites for connection, collaboration, and fun.
• Flexible work and asynchronous operations.
• Annual education allowance for professional development.

Hiring process

• Apply for initial application review.
• Short Intro Call to get to know each other.
• Up to four interviews with Founders, future teammates, and cross-functional members.
• Decision and potential offer.