Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform/SRE)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Infrastructure Platform/SRE): Lead infrastructure platform engineering and establish a Site Reliability function to enable self-service environments and operational excellence for SaaS product delivery, with an accent on infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes operations at scale, and incident/SLO-driven reliability. Focus on building design-before-build engineering rigor, professionalizing incident management, and balancing developer enablement with roadmap execution in a remote environment.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity company building the NodeZero platform for production-safe autonomous pentesting and scalable security assessment operations.

What you will do

• Lead infrastructure platform engineering teams delivering infrastructure-as-code (IaC) components and frameworks for self-service provisioning.
• Set governance, best practices, and controls so application feature teams can safely self-service infrastructure.
• Establish and professionalize an SRE function: hire SRE staff and a line manager, define incident processes, and drive adoption across engineering.
• Drive engineering excellence through design-before-build discipline, architecture decision records/RFCs, design/code reviews, and blameless retrospectives.
• Manage a growing team of infrastructure engineers and engineering managers: intake, prioritization, backlog visibility, hiring, coaching, and retention.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading teams operating SaaS service infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience deploying and operating production infrastructure on public cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred; Azure and GCP familiarity a plus).
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform); experience with Crossplane and GitOps patterns strongly preferred.
• Experience managing production Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Solid security knowledge (zero trust, secrets management, IAM, and software supply chain security).
• Experience building/leading SRE functions including incident management, on-call programs, SLO/SLA definition, and operational runbooks; strong observability experience (logs, traces, golden signals, service metrics).

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role with occasional business travel up to 10%.
• Competitive base salary plus equity (stock options) and benefits.
• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.
• Hybrid & remote work model depending on role and location, including a Chicago office for roles that require regular in-office presence.

Hiring process

• Interviews and evaluation of technical leadership, SRE/infrastructure experience, and ability to lead remote teams.
• Discussion of role expectations around roadmap execution, incident professionalism, and engineering rigor.

Location: Remote (US). Occasional business travel up to 10%.

Salary: $260,000 - $280,000 base (equity/stock options and benefits eligible for full-time roles).