Staff Site Reliability Operations Engineer (GCP)

TL;DR

Staff Site Reliability Operations Engineer (GCP): Leading global platform reliability and observability strategy with an accent on intelligent, self-healing infrastructure. Focus on scaling enterprise-grade GKE topologies, managing high-throughput Kafka streams, and optimizing complex networking across all OSI layers.

Location: Must be based in the United States or Canada

Salary: $136,000–$265,700

Company

hirify.global is a cloud-first, AI-powered platform provider enabling Communication Service Providers to simplify operations and accelerate innovation.

What you will do

• Architect and optimize complex networking infrastructure spanning Layer 1 through Layer 7.
• Design and scale a unified observability platform using the Grafana Labs suite.
• Deploy machine learning models and automated anomaly detection to reduce telemetry noise.
• Drive the architecture, security, and networking of production GKE clusters.
• Maintain high-throughput Apache Kafka pipelines and large-scale data environments.
• Champion the long-term technical roadmap for distributed infrastructure and GCP standards.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States or Canada
• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Distributed Systems roles.
• Expert-level mastery of GKE internals, multi-cluster networking, and GitOps.
• Deep technical knowledge of networking protocols (BGP, OSPF, TCP, QUIC, gRPC).
• Proven experience managing high-throughput Kafka and large-scale data tiers (PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, BigQuery).
• Advanced expertise in Terraform for multi-region GCP architecture and proficiency in Go or Python.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud architectural best practices and Cloud SDN.
• Understanding of Linux internals, eBPF-based monitoring, and packet analysis tools.
• Exceptional written communication skills for asynchronous alignment.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% fully remote work environment.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AIOps and cloud-native observability.
• Collaborative distributed engineering organization across multiple time zones.
• Comprehensive benefits package including potential bonus eligibility.