Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Krakow, Poland; hybrid 3+2 schedule with at least three mandatory office days per week, including Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Company

hirify.global develops simple, powerful, and secure solutions that help customers accelerate business transformation.

What you will do

• Operate, maintain, upgrade, and improve production Kubernetes clusters and workloads across AWS and Azure.
• Manage Kubernetes platform components, including Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, autoscaling, and cluster and node lifecycle processes.
• Support production database platforms such as ClickHouse and Aurora, including performance troubleshooting and operational health.
• Build infrastructure and automation with Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, and similar technologies.
• Participate in scheduled on-call rotations, respond to production incidents, and lead or contribute to incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Improve observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, disaster recovery, documentation, and infrastructure lifecycle management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on production experience operating, upgrading, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, Linux systems administration, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience operating customer-facing, highly available production systems and participating in high-severity incident response.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of compute, networking, storage, DNS, load balancing, security, autoscaling, high availability, and distributed-system troubleshooting.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first environment focused on collaboration, accountability, empathy, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Employment is provided exclusively through an employment contract with FTE status.
• 30-day holidays after five years of tenure, sabbatical leave, and four weeks of paternity leave.
• Annual study and volunteering days, an education budget of up to 8,700 PLN, and access to LinkedIn Learning and English/Polish classes.
• Fully paid medical care, group life insurance, pension contributions, employee assistance, and office benefits.
• Participation in on-call rotations is required to support production reliability and availability.