Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (hirify.global Fleet): Build and maintain reliable systems for autonomous vehicle operations, including depot logistics, automation flows, and critical vehicle state infrastructure with an accent on availability, performance, and scalability. Focus on managing end-to-end fleet services, developing observability and automation, leading incident response, and architecting mission-critical infrastructure for global deployment.

Hybrid work schedule Onsite in Mountain View or San Francisco, California

Salary Range $213,000—$263,000 USD

Company

Autonomous driving technology company building the hirify.global Driver for fully autonomous ride-hail service and vehicle platforms.

What you will do

• Become a production expert and collaborate to build reliable systems for autonomous vehicle operations, depot logistics, and vehicle state infrastructure
• Manage availability and performance for core fleet services to meet user demand, with observability and automation
• Participate in full lifecycle of services from design and deployment to operation and refinement
• Design and implement software to improve architecture, telemetry, and deployment for mission-critical fleet services
• Lead incident response for fleet infrastructure and participate in on-call rotation with blameless retrospectives
• Act as technical leader setting direction and guidelines with SREs, SWEs, and PMs

Requirements

• 6+ years architecting and maintaining mission-critical systems in C++, Java, or Python
• Deep-dive performance profiling and large-scale refactoring for maintainability and latency
• Managing massive distributed systems at software-physical fleet intersection
• Defining SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and designing observability systems
• Leading cross-functional initiatives and mentoring engineers
• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years experience in high-growth environment with leadership

Nice to have

• Engineering leadership of mission-critical systems at scale
• Translating reliability into technical roadmaps and SLO frameworks
• Leading architectural investigations and resolving high-impact failures
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or similar

Culture & Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous company benefits program
• Sustainable on-call rotation with blameless retrospectives
• Focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement