Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools for businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for the SRE team and design self-healing systems.
• Define reliability standards, production readiness reviews, observability strategies, and automation practices.
• Establish end-to-end system visibility through logging, tracing, metrics, monitoring, and actionable alerting.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Senior and Associate SREs through code reviews and technical workshops.
• Act as the escalation point for major incidents and improve incident management and root-cause analysis processes.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define service level objectives aligned with business goals.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, including 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role mentoring others.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems patterns, scalable architectures, and microservices troubleshooting.
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform or AWS, including running Kubernetes at scale and troubleshooting infrastructure issues.
• Proven experience defining observability strategies and architecting telemetry stacks from instrumentation to alerting.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to de-escalate high-pressure incident response situations.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture focused on well-being, inclusion, respect, and open communication.
• Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, and additional benefits.

Hiring process

• Preliminary phone call with a recruiter.
• Technical interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Behavioural and technical interview with an Executive team member.