Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/GCP): Building and improving observability, alerting, and incident management frameworks to ensure service reliability for a global travel app with an accent on automation and SLOs. Focus on developing tooling in Go and Python, optimizing Kubernetes infrastructure, and leading high-severity incident coordination.

Location: Hybrid in Paris, France (2-3 days at the office)

Company

hirify.global is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling millions of members to carpool or travel by bus across 21 countries.

What you will do

• Create and improve observability and alerting tools, leveraging AI to eliminate toil and streamline daily tasks.
• Own the SLO framework and assist in designing SLIs to ensure high service reliability.
• Manage the incident process, defining standards and serving as Incident Commander during high-severity incidents.
• Develop automation tools, such as Terraform modules or Go applications, to enhance reliability.
• Promote operational metrics and post-mortem analysis to drive continuous distributed improvement.

Requirements

• 1 to 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Datadog) and understanding of metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving technical issues in production environments (Kubernetes experience is a plus).
• Full working proficiency in English.
• Must be based in or able to work hybridly from Paris, France.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Grafana IRM and integrating OpenTelemetry.
• Experience working with SLOs/SLIs and programming in Go.
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming, scripting languages, and web/mobile testing tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with 2-3 days in the office.
• Extended maternity/paternity leave (4 additional weeks).
• 50% healthcare coverage (Alan) and local meal plan (Swile).
• Financial support for home office equipment and 50% transportation reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and free unlimited carpooling and bus rides.

Hiring process

• Screening video-call with Talent Acquisition.
• Technical discussion with the Hiring Manager.
• System design interview with team members.
• Final strategy and vision call with the Head of Foundations.
• Note: One of these interviews will be conducted onsite.