Site Reliability Engineer, USG (Aerospace)

Location: Remote (United States)

Company

hirify.global develops laser communications technology and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for aerospace, satellite, airborne, cislunar, and deep-space communications.

What you will do

• Design and build a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core products and high-availability distributed systems.
• Partner with software engineers to establish observability practices, templates, documentation, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of the observability stack with Terraform and GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
• Provide visibility into Kubernetes clusters and GCP and AWS environments.
• Lead monitoring, alerting, incident response, and blameless post-mortems, including on-call support.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) security clearance required.
• 4+ years of experience in SRE or platform engineering, focused on observability for large-scale distributed compute or network systems.
• Hands-on expertise with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo or Jaeger, and related tools.
• Production experience with GCP and Kubernetes, plus Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language, with Go and Python preferred for debugging and tooling.
• Applicants must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements, including qualifying as a U.S. person or being eligible for the required export authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience operating multi-cloud environments with GCP and AWS.
• GitLab CI experience and knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience instrumenting Go and C++ applications or tuning JVM observability for Java applications.
• An active Secret clearance or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on aerospace communications and critical national security programs.
• Professional development and advancement opportunities.
• Collaborative, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid remote and in-office schedules.
• Competitive compensation with equity options, 401(k), health, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus paid time off.