Senior SRE (AI)

TL;DR

Senior SRE (DevOps/AI): Building and optimizing the reliability and scalability of a global HR platform with an accent on Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, and AI-native operational workflows. Focus on designing robust reliability frameworks, implementing agentic AI tools for infrastructure automation, and ensuring system stability in an async-first environment.

Location: Prioritising candidates based in Europe

Salary: $53,300 — $119,850 USD

Company

hirify.global is a global HR platform that enables businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly.

What you will do

• Lead solution discovery and delivery for complex reliability and infrastructure problems with high ambiguity.
• Define and operate reliability practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and observability frameworks.
• Develop and operationalize agentic AI workflows and reusable tooling to increase team shipping speed and safety.
• Collaborate with the Security team on platform hardening and threat mitigation.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to maintain system reliability.
• Mentor less-senior engineers and contribute to platform architecture and RFC discussions.

Requirements

• Solid professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on expertise in operating and scaling production Kubernetes clusters and Docker ecosystem.
• Strong proficiency with AWS and Terraform (Infrastructure-as-Code).
• Competency in Golang and Bash/scripting.
• Practical experience implementing embedded AI and agentic workflows in infra/ops work.
• Ability to communicate clearly and thoughtfully in an async-first, global environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with Elixir, Nodejs, or Python.
• Experience configuring Linux systems in non-cloud environments.
• Defensive and offensive security knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully hirify.global, async-first work culture with flexible working hours.
• Flexible paid time off and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Stock options and a dedicated learning budget.
• Home office budget and IT equipment provided.
• Mental health support services and budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

Hiring process

• Interviews with Recruiter and Hiring Manager.
• Async infrastructure exercise (estimated 2-4 hours).
• Interviews with the Team, a Bar Raiser, and an Executive.
• Offer and background check.