Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote; candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Salary: CAD 140,000–155,000 annual base salary, plus discretionary bonus and/or commission.

Company

hirify.global develops accounting and financial reporting software solutions.

What you will do

• Drive reliability engineering and operational excellence for mission-critical services running on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Design and improve deployment, release, rollback, and secure-by-default CI/CD strategies for distributed systems.
• Build observability capabilities across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability standards.
• Lead high-severity incident response, post-incident reviews, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Partner with Engineering, Security, Platform, and Product teams to improve resilience, performance, and platform standards.
• Mentor engineers in cloud-native technologies, SRE principles, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related cloud-native engineering roles.
• Deep AWS expertise, including EKS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, and cloud networking and security.
• Advanced experience operating and scaling production Kubernetes environments, including Kubernetes architecture, controllers, Gateway API, ingress, and service networking.
• Strong experience with Istio, Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for platform engineering, automation, and operational tooling.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Nice to have

• Experience with canary, blue/green, and feature-flag-based progressive delivery.
• Experience in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive SaaS environments.
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization experience.
• Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.
• Cloud-native certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCSA, KCNA, or Kubestronaut certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work options and generous time-off policies.
• Health insurance and retirement plans.
• Collaborative, inclusive culture with knowledge sharing.
• Performance bonuses, recognition programs, and career growth opportunities.
• International projects and collaboration with a diverse global team.