Senior Software Engineer, Reliability (DevOps)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability (DevOps): Will identify issues and technical challenges, develop innovative solutions to resolve them, and drive their adoption with an accent on enforcing standardization and accommodating tailored workflows. Focus on contributing to the SRE team’s technical roadmap and engaging across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability.

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week.

Salary: $185,000 - $218,000 USD (San Francisco, CA) / $157,000 - $185,000 USD (Denver, CO)

Company

hirify.global is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions.

What you will do

• Collaborate and drive architectural discussions within the SRE team and with cross-functional teams.
• Lead projects and contribute to the SRE team’s technical roadmap to enable engineering and help hirify.global customers.
• Design, build, ship, and maintain the core observability libraries, tools, and patterns used by all of hirify.global’s engineering teams.
• Participate in a cross-organization incident response team, driving continuous improvement.
• Proactively engage across teams to foster service reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, with respect to performance, availability, and data quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in developing solutions Python (preferred), Go, or Ruby in Linux environments, with deep understanding of microservices, asynchronous systems, and remote APIs.
• Experience developing and operating production systems in AWS or Azure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
• Expertise in observability and operational excellence, including monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and improving incident management processes.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, including mentoring engineers and driving platform adoption through a self-service, product-focused approach.

Culture & Benefits

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment.
• Learning and development allowance.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Monthly wellness stipend.