Vice President, Reliability (SRE)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Salary: $320,000–$350,000 USD annually, plus potential bonus and/or equity; compensation range applies to United States candidates.

Company

hirify.global is a global technology company developing hardware, software, and platform technologies that support products and digital experiences worldwide.

What you will do

• Define the reliability vision, strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap for shared platform services across developer experience, data and AI, security, and infrastructure.
• Build and lead an inclusive organization of reliability, observability, performance, and resilience leaders and engineers.
• Scale modern site reliability engineering practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service maturity models, and embedded SRE engagement.
• Lead observability, incident management, disaster recovery, resilience exercises, fault-injection testing, and major incident response.
• Drive performance and scalability engineering, including load testing, profiling, latency optimization, capacity forecasting, and scale validation.
• Partner with platform, product, security, and engineering executives to embed reliability, automation, and operational intelligence across the software lifecycle.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, or reliability engineering, including 8+ years leading engineering organizations.
• Current or prior VP-level engineering experience within an established technology company.
• Proven success building and scaling high-performing engineering teams and shared capabilities used across complex product or platform environments.
• Experience leading reliability or platform engineering at global scale, including SRE, observability, incident management, resilience, performance, or large-scale service operations.
• Deep expertise in modern cloud-native systems and platform operations, with experience in infrastructure, data and AI, security, or developer platforms.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred.

Nice to have

• Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience applying AI and automation to software operations, incident response, and engineering productivity.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
• Flexible spending account.
• 4–12 weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure.
• 11 paid holidays plus flexible paid vacation and sick leave.