Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid work with 2–3 days per week in the office. One hiring interview will be onsite.

Company

hirify.global is a community-based travel platform for carpooling and bus travel, serving 27 million members annually across 21 countries.

What you will do

• Create, maintain, and improve observability and alerting tools and frameworks for software engineering teams.
• Own the Service Level Objectives framework and support the design and maintenance of service indicators.
• Define incident management standards and improve processes through post-mortems and chaos engineering.
• Act as Incident Commander during high-severity production incidents when required.
• Develop Terraform modules, Go applications, and other tools to automate and improve service reliability.
• Build operational metrics and incident reporting to drive continuous improvement across teams.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Strong knowledge of observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, with experience using tools such as Datadog.
• Production troubleshooting and on-call experience in diagnosing and resolving technical issues.
• Strong communication skills for working with multidisciplinary teams and adapting to different levels of technical expertise.
• Full working proficiency in English.
• Ability to take ownership, work with business priorities, and navigate different contexts.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes and incident management platforms such as Grafana IRM.
• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, and OpenTelemetry integration.
• Programming experience in Go or interest in learning Go; familiarity with object-oriented programming and scripting languages.
• Experience with web or mobile testing tools and testing software at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, fast-growing, and innovative environment with small agile teams and strong ownership.
• Four additional weeks of maternity or paternity leave beyond legal requirements.
• 50% healthcare coverage, home-office equipment support, and at least 25 days of holiday per year.
• 50% transportation coverage, local meal plan, and unlimited free carpooling and bus rides.
• Training, mentorship, internal mobility opportunities, employee stock ownership, and regular team-building events.
• One paid day off per year to test the product.

Hiring process

• 45-minute video call with a Talent Acquisition Manager.
• 60-minute call with the Hiring Manager, followed by a 90-minute system design interview with two team members.
• 45-minute call with the Head of Foundations; the process typically takes 25–30 days, with offers usually issued within 48 hours.