Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud): Designing and scaling fault-tolerant infrastructure for a global e-commerce shipping API with an accent on Kubernetes, cloud orchestration, and system reliability. Focus on automating CI/CD pipelines, implementing disaster recovery solutions, and optimizing high-availability distributed systems.

Location: Remote (Canada)

Company

hirify.global is the shipping layer of the internet, providing logistics technology and infrastructure to connect merchants with carriers worldwide via a single API.

What you will do

• Design, scale, and secure infrastructure through fault-tolerant architecture, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Build and maintain automation, monitoring, and alerting systems, including disaster recovery solutions.
• Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption and decoupling of concerns.
• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and safe production releases.
• Verify system performance and correctness regarding response time and throughput.
• Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate on peer design reviews for new features.

Requirements

• Experience developing and troubleshooting highly available distributed systems, specifically with Kubernetes in production.
• Extensive expertise with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong understanding of security practices, automation, and testing methods.
• Familiarity with Redis, Elasticsearch, and Hadoop.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Advanced knowledge of Postgresql server configuration and optimization.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience managing service meshes (e.g., Istio) and monitoring SLOs/SLAs.
• Proficiency with monitoring tools such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics collection.
• Experience managing Python and Golang applications in production.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first and globally distributed team environment.
• Culture based on flexibility, trust, and autonomy.
• Commitment to inclusivity and equal access to opportunities for all backgrounds.
• Modern, scalable technology stack.