Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

TL;DR

Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Building and leading a high-performing SRE team to ensure system reliability, scalability, and observability of hirify.global services with an accent on driving SRE principles, incident excellence, and software-first reliability investments. Focus on establishing SLIs/SLOs, operationalizing reliability reviews, and leading cross-functional initiatives for platform improvements and internal tools.

Location: Remote from Romania only

Company

hirify.global, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, provides data backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence to over 550,000 customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Hire, onboard, and develop the SRE team, fostering a learning and engineering-focused culture.
• Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with service owners.
• Lead and coordinate major incidents, ensuring incident response readiness and measuring key metrics.
• Drive software-first reliability investments in observability, resilience testing, and self-service guardrails.
• Drive platform improvements and internal tools, ensuring sustainable operational coverage.

Requirements

• 3+ years in managing Software, Platform, and/or Reliability Engineering.
• Experience in IT Platform Engineering or Software Development.
• Demonstrated success leading SLO/error-budget adoption and reliability programs for services.
• 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/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, additional days based on tenure, plus 4 extra global hirify.globale Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually.
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, including outpatient care and psychology support.
• Monthly lifestyle and daily meal benefits: 40 RON/day via Edenred and 600 RON/month through a flexible cafeteria platform.
• Life insurance (2× annual gross salary), critical illness, and disability coverage.
• Free access to Bookster library platform.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries, mentoring, workshops, and learning events.