Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Python/AWS): Building and optimizing high-availability infrastructure for a public safety AI platform with an accent on system resilience and observability. Focus on diagnosing root-cause failures in Kubernetes, optimizing high-throughput messaging systems, and implementing AI-driven reliability improvements.

Location: Remote (New York or Boston); must be able to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter.

Salary: $160,000 - $195,000

Company

hirify.global is a leading public safety AI company that provides mission-critical intelligence to first responders and security teams to enable faster emergency response.

What you will do

• Own performance and reliability outcomes by optimizing connection pooling, database architecture, and traffic routing.
• Design for system resilience through safer deployment patterns, failover strategies, and redundancy.
• Implement deep observability using structured logging, metrics, and alerting to detect issues before escalation.
• Manage production incidents from initial signal to final resolution and root cause implementation.
• Work across infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and application code to drive stability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience with deep expertise in Python.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (networking, managed databases, IAM, DNS routing).
• Production experience with Kubernetes (EKS, ECS, or Fargate).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems failure modes (resource exhaustion, replication lag).
• Experience with high-throughput messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS/SQS) and Terraform.
• Must be based in or near New York or Boston for occasional in-person collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with on-call rotations for mission-critical production systems.
• Proficiency with Datadog (APM, alerting), Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps deployments.
• Experience modernizing legacy CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse).

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a mission-driven product that saves lives globally.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Equity participation (stock options).
• Dynamic and flexible startup environment with a highly talented team.