Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California; remote work may be considered within the US for exceptional candidates

Salary: $200,000–$400,000 annual salary plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops vLLM-powered AI inference infrastructure to make model inference faster and more cost-efficient.

What you will do

• Own reliability across the production lifecycle, including release safety, observability, incident response, and recovery.
• Define SLOs and SLIs for availability, latency, and successful inference requests.
• Build monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and automation for distributed inference services.
• Drive incident mitigation, escalation, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems with concrete prevention actions.
• Partner with engineering on capacity planning, operational readiness, and failure-mode reduction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, infrastructure, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience operating production distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or reliability-critical services.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language.
• Experience responding to production incidents, including mitigation, escalation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Practical knowledge of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting, Linux, networking, and systems debugging.
• Clear communication and sound judgment when working with engineering teams under pressure.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI inference, model serving, ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, or latency-sensitive high-throughput services.
• Experience operating Kubernetes services and using Docker, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure tooling.
• Experience building observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Experience with deployment automation, release gates, rollback procedures, resource scheduling, or capacity planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on collaboration with engineers building the inference platform.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) company match.
• Equity included in the compensation package.
• Visa sponsorship is available on a case-by-case basis.