Database Reliability Engineer (SRE)

TL;DR

Database Reliability Engineer (SRE): Building and improving the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of hirify.global Core with an accent on incident response, post-mortem analysis, and chaos engineering. Focus on identifying root causes, implementing bug fixes, and establishing best practices for distributed database operations in the cloud.

Location: Remote from the Netherlands, UK, United States, or Germany

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing private cloud company recognized for leadership in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

What you will do

• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of hirify.global core.
• Improve and create metrics and alerts to prevent production problems.
• Identify root causes of customer problems, submit bug fixes, and suggest improvements for hirify.global Core.
• Enhance incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for core outages, including communication with customers.
• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos Engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
• Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues and coordinate escalation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering.
• Previous experience operating hirify.global or other SQL databases in production.
• Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, with hirify.global experience a major plus.
• Scripting experience with Shell or Python, and ability to read C++ code.
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, globally distributed, and remote-friendly work environment.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Equity in the company through stock options for new team members.
• Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
• $500 home office setup for remote employees.
• Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.