Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Defining and owning the global SRE strategy and infrastructure architecture with an accent on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Focus on driving organization-wide system design, FinOps strategy, and mentoring staff-level engineers to raise the engineering bar across a global platform.

Location: San Francisco (Onsite)

Salary: $181,000–$263,000

Company

hirify.global is a leading data collaboration platform focused on consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity solutions for global innovators.

What you will do

• Define and own the organization-wide SRE strategy, including SLOs, SLAs, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Drive system design, automation, and performance optimization standards across all engineering teams.
• Lead distributed systems architecture reviews and serve as the final escalation point for high-impact production incidents.
• Champion FinOps strategy across Kubernetes, cloud resources, and database infrastructure.
• Mentor Staff Engineers and provide technical guidance to influence product and platform architecture decisions.
• Contribute technical due diligence to M&A evaluations and represent the company in the broader technology ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years in SRE, production, or platform engineering, with 3+ years at a senior or staff level.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) at scale.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including internals, autoscaling, and multi-tenant workload management.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go for building production-grade internal tooling.
• Advanced experience with real-time and NoSQL databases such as SingleStore, ScyllaDB, or Cassandra.
• Strong cloud security background (IAM, network segmentation, SOC 2/ISO 27001) in GCP or AWS.

Nice to have

• Experience building multi-region active-active architectures.
• Contributions to open source observability or infrastructure tooling.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering frameworks like Gremlin or Chaos Monkey.
• Experience with LLMs and AI-assisted development workflows for infrastructure automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and parental leave.
• 401K matching plan (1:1 match up to 6%) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Active social culture with game nights, happy hours, and team events.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging across a global team.