Storage-Focused SRE (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $170,000–$205,000 per year plus bonus and Restricted Stock Units

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated, sustainable AI infrastructure spanning energy, data centers, cloud services, and compute.

What you will do

• Build automation and self-healing tools for distributed block, file, and object storage infrastructure.
• Drive reliability initiatives covering data replication, encryption, backup and restore, and failover mechanisms.
• Implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for large-scale AI compute clusters.
• Operate user-facing storage services, improving availability, performance, and error-budget adherence.
• Investigate storage incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
• Partner with storage, hardware, and kernel engineers to diagnose low-level I/O issues and design scalable storage backends.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
• Hands-on experience operating enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC.
• Strong understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms and managed storage services at scale.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or C, plus Infrastructure as Code and deployment tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep Linux internals knowledge, including I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling, with experience in storage protocols and container orchestration.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, Lightbits, or other distributed storage systems.
• Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack.
• Experience with hybrid on-premises and cloud storage models.

Culture & Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation with Restricted Stock Units.
• Health, vision, dental, HSA, life insurance, and disability coverage options.
• 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to 4% of salary.
• Paid parental leave, generous paid time off, and holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, cell phone reimbursement, and other wellbeing and legal benefits.