Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps): Managing the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems for a distributed workflow orchestration platform with an accent on Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure automation. Focus on designing scalable systems, leading incident response, and optimizing performance for mission-critical workflows.

Location: Must be based in Australia or EMEA

Salary: $180,000–$250,000

Company

hirify.global provides a platform for building reliable, scalable, event-driven applications based on the open-source Conductor project.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems in cloud environments.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets across the platform.
• Lead incident response efforts including detection, triage, mitigation, and postmortems.
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Automate operational workflows and reduce manual toil.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system resiliency and scalability.

Requirements

• Must be based in Australia or EMEA
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation and scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash).

Nice to have

• Experience supporting large-scale SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration technologies like Conductor, Temporal, or Camunda.
• Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of security best practices and cloud infrastructure hardening.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly culture with strong engineering autonomy.
• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Support for personal development.
• Opportunity to work on complex distributed systems at scale.