Entry Level - Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Entry Level Site Reliability Engineer: Building and managing scalable, self-healing, globally-distributed systems that keep hirify.global fast, available, and growing, connecting users to great local businesses with an accent on automation and self-service. Focus on interesting challenges that you can only find at the kind of scale that serves over 100 million users per month.

Location: Must be located in the United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems.

What you will do

• Work closely with engineers in supporting new features and services.
• Build tools to monitor site stability and performance.
• Help ensure the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure, while maintaining platform SLOs.
• Troubleshoot site issues using industry-leading tools like Splunk, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Automate everything with Python, Puppet, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform and leveraging an extensive suite of AI tooling.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Linux and an enthusiasm for learning more (we use Ubuntu but any distro is fine).
• Command of your favorite modern programming language: Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C++, etc.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (we use AWS, but Azure/GCP are fine).
• Practical background in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or similar).
• Relevant experience with Linux containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes).
• Opportunity requires you to be located in the United Kingdom.

Culture & Benefits

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
• £150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
• £75 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.