SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) (GCP)

TL;DR

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) (GCP): Own reliability across GCP infrastructure, lead incident response, and drive scalable database and search operations with an accent on Kubernetes, Terraform-managed environments, and production observability. Focus on preventing recurrence through end-to-end incident handling, scaling MySQL/Postgres, and tuning Elasticsearch clusters under real-world load.

Location: New York City (On-site)

Salary: $150K–$275K (Offers Equity)

Company

hirify.global builds a large-scale platform for gaming clips and creator-powered gaming communities.

What you will do

• Own reliability across GCP infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, managed services, and data pipelines to improve availability and latency.
• Lead incident response end-to-end: on-call rotations, runbooks, postmortems, and follow-through to prevent recurrence.
• Architect and execute database scaling strategies (sharding, replication, query optimization, capacity planning) for MySQL and Postgres.
• Manage and evolve Terraform-managed GCP and Kubernetes configurations.
• Own Elasticsearch end-to-end: capacity planning, sharding strategy, index lifecycle management, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Build observability (metrics, dashboards, alerting, tracing) and improve CI/CD reliability across GitHub Actions; harden IAM, secrets management, and network segmentation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience scaling and sharding relational databases (MySQL/Postgres) in production.
• Strong GCP experience with Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, and managed services.
• Fluency in Terraform with ownership of infrastructure-as-code at scale.
• Production experience operating Elasticsearch and keeping clusters healthy.
• Proven incident response skills: calm execution during P0s, clear communication, and postmortems that prevent recurrence.
• Excellent communication skills to flag issues quickly and lead/write actionable postmortems.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) and wellness/fitness perks (Wellhub membership) plus mental health resources.
• Paid parental leave, fertility and maternal health benefits.
• Generous PTO and daily meals and commuter benefits at the NYC HQ in Flatiron.
• Learning and development stipend; competitive salary with meaningful equity.