Lead Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/GCP)

Location: Ontario, Canada (Remote)

Salary: CAD 154,000–200,000 per year, plus potential bonus and benefits

Company

hirify.global scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning.

What you will do

• Define and drive infrastructure automation strategies that reduce manual work and improve performance and incident outcomes.
• Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of core platform applications in a multi-cloud, multi-region active-active environment.
• Architect the logging platform while balancing availability, retention, and cost optimization.
• Establish capacity planning and performance management frameworks and guide complex troubleshooting.
• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives with SRE and service engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and identify systemic platform weaknesses and improvement opportunities autonomously.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability or Software Engineering, including leading multi-cloud architecture and strategy across AWS and GCP.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, resilient distributed systems, including Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, Grafana Loki, and ScyllaDB/Cassandra.
• Experience leading observability platforms and defining observability standards and SLO frameworks using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana Alloy, Loki, and Tempo.
• Expertise in infrastructure as code with Terraform and Chef, plus advanced Kubernetes expertise across EKS and GKE.
• Proficiency in NodeJS, Golang, Ruby, Python, and shell scripting, with advanced Linux systems expertise.
• Experience improving on-call, monitoring, alerting, automated runbooks, incident response, diagnostics, and performance tuning.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement for Ontario, Canada.
• Full medical, financial, and other benefits are available.
• Every SRE team member participates in a week-long on-call rotation.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace committed to supporting diverse employees.