Site Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Remote (United States). Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status, eligibility to access the information without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining the necessary export authorization.

Company

hirify.global develops laser communications technology and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for aerospace, satellite, airborne, cislunar, and deep-space communications.

What you will do

• Design and build a centralized observability platform for metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry.
• Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core products.
• Partner with software engineers to establish observability standards, templates, documentation, and instrumentation.
• Automate observability deployment and operations with Terraform and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
• Provide visibility into Kubernetes clusters and GCP and AWS environments.
• Lead monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems; participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in SRE or platform engineering, focused on observability for large-scale distributed compute or network systems.
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo or Jaeger, and similar tools.
• Production experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language, preferably Go or Python.
• Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for highly available production services.

Nice to have

• Multi-cloud experience with GCP and AWS, GitLab CI, service mesh technologies, or JVM observability.
• Experience instrumenting Go and C++ applications.
• Active Secret clearance or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid remote and in-office schedules.
• Professional development and advancement opportunities.
• Collaborative, supportive, and inclusive work environment.
• Competitive compensation with equity options.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.