Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Performance & Scalability)

Location: Remote in the USA

Company

hirify.global is a full-service consulting firm delivering predictable outcomes and high-quality technology solutions to clients.

What you will do

• Establish performance, throughput, latency, capacity, SLO, error budget, dashboard, alert, and reliability baselines for critical platform workflows.
• Instrument and analyze end-to-end request paths across applications, infrastructure, databases, networking, caches, queues, DNS, registries, and third-party dependencies.
• Identify bottlenecks, lead cross-functional remediation, and drive architecture hardening, graceful degradation, dependency-failure planning, and resilience improvements.
• Build capacity and cost models, develop demand scenarios, and communicate scaling trade-offs and risks to engineering and executive leadership.
• Lead load, stress, soak, spike, failure, and recovery testing, including automated performance testing and production release gates.
• Own technical readiness assessments, incident investigations, and operational runbooks for launches, scale-up events, rollback, recovery, and dependency failures.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, performance engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience supporting production systems with substantial scale, traffic, latency, or availability requirements.
• Deep knowledge of observability, performance analysis, capacity planning, reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with databases, networking, caching, queueing, compute, storage, system profiling, bottleneck diagnosis, and architectural tuning.
• Experience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, reliability metrics, load testing, stress testing, scalability testing, and resilience testing.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience operating high-scale SaaS, identity, DNS, registry, infrastructure, or other highly distributed platforms.
• Experience creating capacity-cost models and forecasting infrastructure requirements.
• Experience building performance and reliability gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience preparing platforms for significant traffic increases from enterprise customers or strategic partnerships.
• Experience leading reliability or performance initiatives across multiple engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract engagement for a US-based worker.
• Work is guided by deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to a diverse and inclusive environment.