Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)

TL;DR

Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineer (GCP): Managing and scaling infrastructure for the world's largest gaming clip platform with an accent on database scalability and high-availability GCP services. Focus on architecting sharding strategies for MySQL/Postgres, optimizing Elasticsearch clusters, and refining incident response processes.

Location: On-site in New York City, NY

Salary: $150,000 – $275,000

Company

hirify.global is the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, enabling millions of gamers to capture and share their best moments.

What you will do

• Own reliability across GCP infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and data pipelines, to improve availability and latency.
• Lead end-to-end incident response, managing on-call rotations, runbooks, and actionable postmortems.
• Architect database scaling strategies such as sharding, replication, and capacity planning for MySQL and Postgres.
• Manage and evolve Terraform-managed GCP environments and Kubernetes cluster configurations.
• Own Elasticsearch cluster operations, including sharding strategy, index lifecycle management, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain full-stack observability using metrics, dashboards, alerting, and tracing.

Requirements

• Must be based in New York City, NY for full-time on-site work.
• Deep hands-on experience scaling and sharding relational databases in production environments.
• Expert-level proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Kubernetes, VPC, and IAM.
• Fluency in Terraform and experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale.
• Proven experience operating and maintaining Elasticsearch clusters in production.
• Strong incident response instincts and the ability to communicate clearly under pressure during P0 incidents.

Nice to have

• Experience working in rapid-growth startups or scale-ups.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions within a production CI/CD environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity options.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Wellness and fitness perks, including Wellhub membership and mental health resources.
• Generous PTO policy and paid parental leave.
• Daily meals and commuter benefits provided at the NYC HQ in Flatiron.