Staff Production Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $209,000–$253,000 annually plus bonus and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated, energy-efficient AI infrastructure and operates an AI-optimized cloud platform for demanding compute workloads.

What you will do

• Define, measure, and improve availability metrics, service level indicators, and service level objectives for the cloud platform.
• Lead production incident response, service disruption resolution, post-incident reviews, and root cause analysis.
• Architect and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and OpenTelemetry.
• Identify reliability risks and performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and GPU infrastructure.
• Design automation, remediation tooling, and self-healing infrastructure to reduce operational toil and improve recovery times.
• Partner with compute, networking, storage, and platform teams while mentoring engineers and promoting reliability practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Production Engineering, SRE, or large-scale infrastructure operations.
• Experience supporting GPU workloads, HPC environments, or latency- and throughput-sensitive distributed systems.
• Strong Linux/Unix debugging skills across kernel and user space.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, distributed systems, virtualization, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience with incident management, reliability frameworks, monitoring and observability, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, C, or C++, with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms at scale.
• Experience with operational readiness reviews, change management, structured root cause analysis, or automated remediation.
• Interest in scaling AI or HPC infrastructure and mentoring Production Engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance options, including HDHP and PPO plans.
• Employer HSA contributions, paid parental leave, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to 4% of salary.
• Paid time off, holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a $300 monthly commuter benefit.
• Restricted stock units, cell phone reimbursement, Teladoc, Calm, and MetLife Legal benefits.