Site Reliability/Production Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Site Reliability/Production Engineer (AI): Owning critical production systems end-to-end, designing, building, and improving them, focusing on maintaining platform reliability at scale. Focus on instrumenting services, eliminating performance bottlenecks, building deployment platforms, and translating incident post-mortems into lasting architectural improvements.

Location: New York City; San Francisco, CA

Salary: $160,000 to $300,000

Company

The AI platform for investors and bankers that generates alpha and drives upside.

What you will do

• Own critical production services end-to-end, from design and code review through deployment, operation, and incident response.
• Profile, benchmark, and rewrite hot paths to eliminate bottlenecks as hirify.global scales.
• Lead incident response and drive post-mortem culture, translating findings into code changes and architectural improvements.
• Design and build observability frameworks from scratch, writing custom instrumentation, alerting logic, and debugging tooling.
• Own capacity planning and cost efficiency: model growth, right-size infrastructure, and write automation that prevents over-provisioning and resource exhaustion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience writing, shipping, and maintaining production services.
• Production-grade proficiency in at least one systems or backend language: Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems.
• Container orchestration expertise and experience debugging complex distributed failures in production.
• Cloud platform fluency (AWS preferred).
• Strong CI/CD pipeline expertise and a track record of improving developer velocity without sacrificing safety.

Nice to have

• Background at a company with a Production Engineering or software-focused SRE culture.
• Experience building platforms for AI/ML workloads or high-throughput document processing pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance + 401K.
• Catered lunch daily + DoorDash dinner credit for late stays.
• Parental leave policy: 3 months for non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent.
• $15k lifetime fertility benefit.
• Competitive equity package.