Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing the reliability and AI operations foundation for a semiconductor intelligence platform with an accent on LLM observability, agentic pipeline resilience, and multi-region AWS architecture. Focus on designing blast radius containment for AI agents, automating observability via Datadog, and scaling an Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

Location: Remote for candidates based in Canada

Salary: $125,200 - $132,500 CAD

Company

hirify.global is the leading information platform providing in-depth intelligence and reverse engineering analysis for the semiconductor industry.

What you will do

• Own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for all production services, driving error budget discipline across engineering.
• Design reliability patterns for AI agent pipelines, including LLM observability, tool-use tracking, and graceful degradation.
• Architect blast radius containment through isolation and circuit breaking to bound customer impact from agent failures.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, maturing the Canada Central/West active-active architecture toward a 24-hour RTO.
• Partner with AI Engineering on compute provisioning, model serving, inference latency, and workload isolation.
• Manage infrastructure as code via Terraform and GitOps, and oversee FinOps visibility for AWS cost segments.

Requirements

• Must be based in Canada
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 6–8 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Deep expertise in AWS (EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch) and multi-region architecture patterns.
• Proficiency with Terraform, GitOps, and operational depth in Datadog.
• Strong skills in Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and Bash; understanding of Java/Spring Boot microservices.

Nice to have

• Experience designing reliability architecture for agentic AI systems and LLM-dependent services.
• AWS Professional certifications (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or cloud cost management experience at scale.
• Experience in semiconductor, SaaS, or data-intensive platform environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and wellness.
• Financial perks such as RRSP Matching and annual fitness reimbursement.
• Flexible vacation policy and company-sponsored training and development.
• Inclusive environment prioritizing diversity, equity, and accessibility.
• High-growth environment focused on high performance and innovation.