Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote, Washington, United States

Salary: $123,000–$150,000 per year; compensation varies by location, skills, experience, and role level. Benefits may vary by location.

Company

Develops API and AI connectivity technologies and a unified platform for securing, managing, governing, and monetizing API and AI model traffic.

What you will do

• Operate and scale a multi-region, multi-cloud SaaS platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Build Kubernetes infrastructure and deployment workflows with Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and ArgoCD.
• Design and optimize highly available, low-latency data and caching layers using PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and Druid.
• Operate API gateway and service mesh environments supporting hybrid and distributed architectures.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, and improve observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, lead scaling initiatives, and improve incident response, postmortems, and operational playbooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale SaaS or PaaS systems in secure, multi-region, and multi-tenant environments.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including cluster and networking troubleshooting, fault tolerance, and scalability design.
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform or Terragrunt, plus CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Programming experience with Go, Python, or Bash; solid knowledge of Linux/Unix, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, load balancers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with API gateways, service meshes, Kafka, observability platforms, and 24/7/365 production support.

Nice to have

• Experience with hirify.global Gateway, hirify.global Mesh, ClickHouse, Druid, PostgreSQL, or Redis in multi-region environments.
• Knowledge of AWS networking, Azure VNet, or GCP NCC.
• Experience with disaster recovery, resiliency testing, and compliance-driven reliability practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work supporting a global platform.
• US-based employees are typically offered healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability benefits, and life and AD&D insurance.
• Hands-on work with production SaaS systems serving thousands of customers across multiple regions and clouds.
• Operational work includes continuous improvement of reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.