Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer: Building the reliability engineering function for a complex, distributed SaaS platform with an accent on availability, observability, and operational excellence. Focus on defining SLOs/SLIs, leading incident response, and embedding reliability practices into the SDLC as a foundational hire.

Location: Must be based in Santa Clara, CA

Salary: $230,000–$250,000

Company

hirify.global provides a network digital twin platform that offers unmatched visibility and verification for complex enterprise and government network environments.

What you will do

• Define and drive SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets from the ground up.
• Build and maintain observability infrastructure for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Lead incident response processes, including on-call rotations, runbooks, and blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate reliability thinking into capacity planning, load testing, and production readiness.
• Help scale the SRE team and define the operational roadmap for the platform.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering in a SaaS or cloud environment.
• Proven experience building or significantly maturing an SRE function.
• Strong fundamentals in networking including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, and load balancing.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
• Deep proficiency with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or Bash.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform or Ansible).

Nice to have

• Experience supporting enterprise or federal government customers with high availability requirements.
• Experience in a foundational or early SRE hire capacity at a growth-stage company.

Culture & Benefits

• People-centric and innovative culture focused on shaping the future of network reliability and AI-ready operations.
• Opportunity to work on a foundational role with a clear path to leadership.
• Collaborative environment working closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.