Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Data Infrastructure): Responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s data platform. Building and operating the foundational systems that power data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale with an accent on automation, observability, and resilience. Focus on evolving DevSecOps practices and ensuring services are built for reliability from day one.

Location: While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

Salary: $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Company

hirify.global delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

What you will do

• Own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform.
• Design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets.
• Scale infrastructure, improve deployment pipelines, and harden our security posture.
• Play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized software services, including cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience owning production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and postmortems.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating geo-replicated, multi-region, active-active systems, including traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs.
• Strong experience building and owning observability components, including metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Nice to have

• Experience operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink).
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX.
• Background in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by hirify.global.
• Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, and Tuition Reimbursement.
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health and Family-Forming support provided by Carrot.
• Flexible PTO and a casual work environment.
• 401(k) with a generous employer match.