Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software): Build and maintain mission-critical platforms accelerating vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon with an accent on safety, quality, and scalability. Focus on deploying services, managing infrastructure as code, observability, and eliminating performance bottlenecks in high-stakes aerospace environments.

Location: Hawthorne, CA. ITAR requirements: Must be U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident (green card holder), refugee, or asylee.

Salary: $125,000–$175,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops technologies to enable human life on Mars through rocket and spacecraft programs like Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink.

What you will do

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools for application health monitoring
• Collaborate with software engineers to design operable, maintainable, and testable systems
• Engage in full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and refinement
• Practice incident response, blameless postmortems, and provide end-user support
• Participate in on-call rotation and identify performance bottlenecks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering; or 3+ years SRE/DevOps experience
• 1+ years experience with Python and Python frameworks
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• ITAR eligibility: U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee

Nice to have

• Experience with build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make)
• Container and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM)
• Databases and data modeling (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse)
• IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
• Full-stack development (Python, JavaScript, C#; end-users C++)

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan, short/long-term disability, life insurance
• Paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, 10+ paid holidays, paid sick leave
• Long-term incentives: stock, stock options, cash awards; Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Various discounts and perks