Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded technology company operating in regulated sports betting and gaming.

What you will do

• Define the long-term strategy for Kubernetes platforms across Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, RKE2, and on-premise environments.
• Drive architecture for cluster lifecycle management, networking, identity and access management, observability, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Lead large-scale platform initiatives across engineering teams and establish technical standards and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Develop service level objectives, service level indicators, error budget frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, self-healing systems, and internal platform tooling.
• Lead critical incidents, drive post-incident improvements, and strengthen resilience through automation and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and influence technical strategy across the organization, including responsible adoption of AI-powered engineering capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• At least 8 years of experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed cloud and on-premise infrastructure, including at least 3 years at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including architecture, networking, storage, security, operators, lifecycle management, and large-scale operations.
• Extensive AWS and Google Cloud experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong software development experience in Go, Python, or both, plus experience with GitOps, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, Linux, and reliability engineering.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, including mentoring, cross-functional alignment, and technical strategy ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated industries or hybrid cloud environments.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Technology-focused environment centered on innovation and emerging technologies.
• Opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy for a demanding sports betting and gaming platform.
• Support for obtaining a gaming license when required for the role.
• Equal employment opportunity and a commitment to a discrimination-free workplace.