Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SaaS)

TL;DR

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SaaS): Building and scaling the reliability infrastructure for the Develocity platform with an accent on Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and automated incident response. Focus on defining SRE standards, mentoring the founding SRE team, and ensuring high availability for global enterprise customers.

Location: Must be based in Europe (GMT)

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native company building Develocity, a toolchain observability and intelligence platform used by leading global organizations to optimize software delivery.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Develocity production instances and supporting infrastructure.
• Define SRE standards, including SLOs, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
• Lead incident response and act as a technical escalation point in a follow-the-sun rotation.
• Drive automation across deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Partner with engineering leadership to balance feature delivery with reliability and scalability.
• Mentor SRE team members and contribute to hiring and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps operating production services at scale.
• Must be based in Europe (GMT).
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, EC2).
• Proficiency with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash.
• Proven track record of incident management and leading reliability initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience as a founding or early SRE in a growing SaaS organization.
• Familiarity with Develocity or JVM languages (Java, Kotlin).
• Experience with executive-level incident communications.

Culture & Benefits

• Ground-floor opportunity to shape the SRE function and operational culture.
• Remote-first environment with a focus on asynchronous communication.
• Competitive salary and equity grants.
• Annual company offsite and team meetings for in-person collaboration.
• Culture that prioritizes automation and thoughtful, deliberate action.