Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote, must be located in the GMT timezone (UK, Ireland, Portugal, or the Canary Islands)

Company

hirify.global builds Develocity, an AI-powered toolchain observability and intelligence platform for software organizations, supporting build and test acceleration across multiple development ecosystems.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Develocity instances, artifact registries, and supporting production services.
• Define SRE standards and operating models covering on-call, incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead technical escalation and blameless retrospectives for complex or high-severity incidents.
• Drive automation for deployments, upgrades, monitoring, self-healing, recovery, and operational workflows.
• Build observability across managed services, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Own disaster recovery, backups, business continuity, performance, cost optimization, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or an equivalent production operations role.
• Experience leading reliability initiatives across multiple teams or services and influencing technical direction without direct authority.
• Strong production Kubernetes experience and cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably with AWS, EKS, RDS, S3, and EC2.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Python, and Bash.
• Experience with SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and 24/7 on-call operations.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing SRE practices in a growing SaaS organization.
• Familiarity with Develocity or JVM languages such as Java and Kotlin.
• Experience with customer-facing and executive-level incident communications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with asynchronous communication and written documentation.
• Hands-on ownership of production systems used by major software organizations and open-source projects.
• Culture focused on automation rather than heroics.
• In-person annual offsites and team meetings.
• Competitive salary and equity grants.