Site Reliability Engineering Manager (Databases)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SRE/Databases): Leading the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical production platforms with an accent on database engineering and operational excellence. Focus on automating system resilience, defining SLOs/SLIs, and optimizing cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability.

Location: Krakow, Poland

Salary: PLN 23,700 - 32,000 gross per month

Company

hirify.global provides simulation, training, and mission readiness solutions to help make the world a safer place.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of reliability engineers across database and platform domains.
• Define the reliability strategy, operating model, and roadmap for critical production services.
• Own availability, performance, and resilience of production databases and dependent platform services.
• Define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services and database platforms.
• Lead incident management, postmortems, and remediation efforts to reduce recurrence.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, operational automation, and self-healing mechanisms.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Database Engineering or related production roles.
• 2+ years of leadership experience managing engineers or technical teams.
• Strong expertise in relational database platforms such as PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server.
• Experience operating reliable services in cloud or hybrid environments, including AWS.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and platform engineering practices.
• Strong background in observability, incident response, and disaster recovery practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Private Medical Care (LuxMed) and Life Insurance (UNUM).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and Capital Plans (PPK).
• MyBenefit and Multisport memberships.
• LinkedIn Learning and eyeglasses reimbursement.
• Special leaves: bereavement, volunteer, and maternal allowance supplement.