Senior Production Engineer (SRE)

TL;DR

Senior Production Engineer (SRE): Leading the design, maintenance, and optimization of complex, large-scale production infrastructure with an accent on SRE principles, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud-native reliability. Focus on automating operational tasks, managing incident response, and mentoring engineering teams to ensure high performance and scalability across a hybrid environment.

Location: Must be based in Australia

Company

hirify.global is a global technology company providing premium, enterprise-grade WordPress hosting and developer-centric tools to 1.5 million customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead engineering efforts to maintain high standards of stability, performance, and scalability.
• Monitor and resolve production infrastructure challenges across GCP and AWS.
• Identify and implement automated solutions to reduce operational toil.
• Serve as a technical point of contact during critical incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Manage code deployments and security patching pipelines.
• Coach and mentor engineers to foster a culture of professional development.

Requirements

• Must be based in Australia
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or SRE at internet scale.
• Advanced expertise in Kubernetes and Docker.
• Proficiency in Python or Go.
• Strong understanding of Linux, Nginx/Apache, MySQL, and infrastructure automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus or EFK stacks.

Culture & Benefits

• Company stock options for all employees.
• Superannuation program.
• Generous vacation time and company wellness days.
• $745 AUS home office stipend.
• Supplemental maternity and paternity pay.
• Employee assistance program.