Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; hybrid

Salary: $93,700–$138,700 per year at the start of employment, with potential additional bonus and/or equity.

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes major video game franchises and supports a portfolio of global game development studios.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and on-premises data centers.
• Own Kubernetes platforms on EKS and GKE, including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, and autoscaling.
• Build observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry; define SLI/SLO and error-budget policies.
• Implement progressive delivery, self-service provisioning, automated remediation, intelligent scaling, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead chaos engineering, incident response, and post-mortems focused on systemic fixes.
• Promote SRE practices across studios, contribute to architecture decisions, and author engineering RFCs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or equivalent production-scale infrastructure work.
• Deep Kubernetes experience in cloud environments, preferably EKS or GKE, including networking, storage, and multi-cluster patterns.
• Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi skills, with hands-on experience in Helm, Terragrunt, and GitOps tooling.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, VMware, bare-metal servers, Ansible, Puppet, and AWS Systems Manager.
• Production-quality coding in Go, Python, or TypeScript, plus strong Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, and TLS debugging skills.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada without current or future employer sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Live-service game or large-scale consumer internet experience serving millions of concurrent users.
• Advanced service mesh and Kubernetes networking experience with Istio or Cilium.
• FinOps, cloud certifications, AI and agentic development experience, or experience mentoring SREs.

Culture & Benefits

• Systems-focused post-mortems and an automation-first approach to repetitive work.
• Opportunity to support infrastructure connecting millions of players across global regions.
• Regular employees may receive bonuses, equity awards, and medical, financial, and other benefits.
• hirify.global is committed to an inclusive workplace and provides reasonable accommodations during hiring and employment.