Site Reliability Engineer (TypeScript)

Location: United States; hybrid in Arlington, VA, with approximately 50% on-site work at customer locations and 50% remote. Candidates outside commuting distance must be willing to relocate; relocation assistance is provided.

Salary: $180,000–$220,000 annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination, combining modern software, AI, and real-time collaboration.

What you will do

• Improve application reliability and performance directly in the primarily TypeScript codebase.
• Design and operate monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards using Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana.
• Define and measure SLIs and SLOs and connect reliability targets to actionable alerting.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, turning root-cause findings into lasting code or process fixes.
• Automate repetitive operational work and support production deployments across on-premises DoD and AWS environments, including air-gapped environments.
• Collaborate with product engineering, platform, security, DevOps, and customer success teams while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance required.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, or a related role, including substantial application development and production delivery.
• Strong TypeScript experience or comparable modern-language experience with willingness to work primarily in TypeScript.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including design, code review, testing, release, and reliability practices.
• Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, and implementing durable fixes.
• Ability to collaborate across product, platform, and DevOps teams and communicate context openly.

Nice to have

• Node or modern frontend framework experience, CI/CD pipelines, and testing practices.
• Python, Go, or Bash for tooling and automation.
• Containers, Kubernetes, networking, secure configuration, and AWS or AWS GovCloud.
• Grafana stack, ELK, Datadog, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, service mesh, or Kubernetes operations experience.
• DoD environments, RMF, STIGs, ICD 503, on-premises virtualization, or relevant AWS/CKA/CKAD certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with flexible hours, while this role requires regular customer-site work.
• Unlimited PTO, annual company retreats, and a $1,000 annual home-office budget.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match and eight weeks of parental leave at 100% regardless of state.
• Blameless postmortems and a culture focused on reliability, shared context, and continuous improvement.