Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Creating and evolving systems that automatically run a suite of products and services reliably and consistently, with an accent on SLO/SLA success criteria, observability, and incident-driven reliability improvements. Focus on building recoverability, eliminating single points of failure, and delivering automation and developer experience tooling across Kubernetes-based, distributed, event-driven platforms.

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Salary: $175,000-$200,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a Morningstar company building enterprise products and services.

What you will do

• Build and maintain internal platform services, Kubernetes operators, and observability tooling for enterprise reliability at scale.
• Define service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and SLIs; ensure systems consistently meet or exceed targets.
• Implement recoverability across services (DR, backups/recovery, multi-AZ/multi-region cloud constructs) and improve failover readiness.
• Design high-availability and scalability patterns (clustering, load balancing) for containerized cloud-native environments.
• Develop reusable observability systems (monitoring, telemetry, tracing), including alerting and dashboards.
• Operate and continuously improve reliability, scalability, performance, security, and uptime; participate in 24/7 on-call response.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and maintaining Linux/UNIX-based systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP & AWS).
• 5+ years in Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef).
• 5+ years coding in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, Go, or Kotlin.
• 2+ years with containers and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure systems, networking, and security in cloud environments; experience with scalability, recoverability, and capacity planning.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits plus life and disability insurance.
• Paid sabbatical after four years, paid family and paternity leave, and generous vacation/sick/volunteer days.
• Annual educational stipend and tuition reimbursement; robust training programs.
• 401k match and shared ownership employee stock program; monthly transportation stipend.
• Role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

Hiring process

• Interviews to evaluate reliability engineering experience, system design, and operational ownership.
• Assessment of collaboration and communication in stressful incident scenarios.