Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/AI): Leading the evolution of the platform infrastructure to ensure reliability, observability, and scalability with an accent on AWS migration and CI/CD automation. Focus on designing resilient distributed systems, improving incident response processes, and enhancing developer experience through ephemeral environments.

Location: On-site in New York City (Soho office)

Salary: $200,000 – $250,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native revenue platform automating the contract-to-cash lifecycle for modern finance and accounting teams.

What you will do

• Lead AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including migrating from ECS/Fargate toward modern, scalable runtimes.
• Design and mature CI/CD systems with a strong emphasis on developer experience, safety, and automation.
• Develop observability standards across metrics, logs, and tracing, including SLO development and alert hygiene.
• Own incident response, postmortems, and the overall reliability culture.
• Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable systems and build automation to reduce operational toil.
• Mentor engineers and influence best practices for operational excellence across the company.

Requirements

• 10+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering roles.
• Strong software engineering experience in one or more modern languages.
• Expertise operating distributed systems in production at scale.
• Deep experience with AWS, observability tooling, and CI/CD systems.
• Must be based in and work on-site in New York City.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity with 401k.
• Unlimited PTO and parental leave up to 12 weeks.
• Up to 100% employer-covered monthly healthcare premiums (medical, dental, vision).
• Daily perks including lunch via Sharebite and dinner for late office days.
• Tax-free commuter and parking benefits.
• Free One Medical membership and Employee Assistance Program.