Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform (AI)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform (DevOps/AI): Designing and operating critical data infrastructure for AI research with an accent on high-throughput pipelines and low-latency data systems. Focus on scaling ClickHouse clusters, optimizing Kafka ingestion, and ensuring production reliability for analytics platforms.

Location: San Francisco

Salary: $230k – $385k + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Manage the infrastructure lifecycle across provisioning, upgrades, and scaling using an IaC-first approach.
• Operate and scale ClickHouse clusters, focusing on sharding, replication, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Optimize Kafka as the ingestion backbone to improve throughput, lag handling, and failure recovery.
• Build robust monitoring and alerting systems using SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and actionable runbooks.
• Develop and implement incident response standards, on-call practices, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Partner with software engineers to embed reliability into design, implementation, and release processes.

Requirements

• Track record of owning production infrastructure for data-heavy, low-latency systems end to end.
• Strong hands-on experience operating ClickHouse, Kafka, and large-scale data systems.
• Practical experience with Snowflake workflows and cross-system data architecture.
• Strong operational experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to independently define and implement operational standards and runbooks.
• Location: Must be based in San Francisco

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on critical infrastructure that accelerates the progress toward AGI.
• Environment emphasizing high personal rigor and organization in high-pressure production settings.
• Collaborative culture working across engineering and research teams.
• Competitive compensation package including equity.