Site Reliability Engineer

Location: El Segundo, California, United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Government authorizations.

Base salary: $170,000–$195,000 per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense technology startup building infrastructure that unifies sensors, autonomy, and operators for national security operations.

What you will do

• Own production reliability across cloud deployments and edge devices operating in remote and contested environments.
• Define and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs, including error-budget practices.
• Manage the observability stack with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, evidence-first troubleshooting, and blameless postmortems.
• Encode reliability and security practices in infrastructure as code.
• Help establish infrastructure and DevSecOps practices in a fast-moving startup environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE or in a related role.
• Deep Kubernetes operations experience, including node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging.
• Experience designing observability dashboards and high-signal alerting rules.
• Production experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and fluent AWS knowledge covering IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and workload hardening.
• Experience managing highly available database deployments and IoT or edge device fleets.
• Eligibility to work on projects subject to U.S. Government export regulations is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with GovCloud, FIPS, regulated, or air-gapped environments.
• Experience operating constrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms.
• Overlay or mesh networking experience with Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similar tools.
• Experience setting up SLO and error-budget tooling from scratch.
• Active security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Significant stock options as an early-stage company.
• 401(k) with employer matching and full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Relocation assistance may be provided.
• Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum, plus 11 paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave for both parents.
• Office perks include lunch, a stocked kitchenette, free EV charging, and coffee, snacks, and craft beer.