Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $167,300–$242,600 USD per year, plus bonus eligibility and equity. The target range is $195,000–$225,000 based on experience, skills, and market data.

Company

hirify.global develops a cybersecurity product focused on stopping hackers and helping customers protect their businesses.

What you will do

• Lead projects that build and maintain platform features across product reliability, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Write infrastructure-as-code commits and occasionally develop and test application code in Python, Golang, and JavaScript.
• Mentor service owners on deploying, measuring, monitoring, and operating services at scale.
• Participate in a weekly support rotation, including on-call and working-hours support for platform users.
• Lead incident response, triage, and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• Significant experience operating Kubernetes in highly distributed environments.
• Experience running systems in GCP or AWS.
• Experience with monitoring, observability infrastructure, and standard methodologies.
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code practices, tools, and patterns.
• Software development experience in Linux environments, preferably with Python or Golang.
• At least six years of systems experience in operations or development, authorization to work in the United States, and no need for immigration visa sponsorship.

Culture & Benefits

• Shared backlog, weekly pair programming, peer review, and weekly blame-free retrospectives.
• Cloud-native platform work using Kubernetes/GKE/EKS and HashiCorp tooling.
• Unlimited PTO, work location flexibility, and up to 24 weeks of parental leave.
• Health benefits, learning and growth opportunities, and a collaborative engineering environment.

Hiring process

• Recruiter conversation followed by a hiring manager video interview.
• Pair programming interview with two engineers.
• Virtual onsite interviews covering engineering leadership, system design, and technology and skills.