Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Temp to Hire) (SRE)

Location: Fully remote within the United States. Training is virtual and equipment is provided.

Salary: $165,000–$185,000 annually, plus bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures diabetes technology, including the Tandem Mobi system and t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ+ technology.

What you will do

• Lead production support, incident command, escalation, stakeholder communication, and blameless postmortems.
• Define SLIs and SLOs, improve observability, tune alerts, reduce MTTD and MTTR, and build operational runbooks.
• Own on-call strategy, rotation design, escalation paths, and coverage across a distributed team.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and improve CI/CD reliability through rollback, risk-check, and progressive-delivery guardrails.
• Lead business continuity and disaster recovery readiness, including backups, failover, recovery testing, and RTO/RPO validation.
• Partner with Security, Quality, Compliance, software engineering, QA, and architecture while mentoring internal and consulting-partner engineers.

Requirements

• Experience leading production support, high-severity incident management, and postmortem practices.
• Strong knowledge of SRE principles, including SLIs/SLOs, blameless postmortems, toil reduction, and reliability engineering.
• Expertise with Terraform or comparable infrastructure as code at scale, including modules, state management, and policy guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, a major cloud platform, Docker, Kubernetes, observability tooling, and scripting or programming such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience designing and testing disaster recovery, cloud security, compliance controls, and cost optimization.
• 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering and 2+ years mentoring or technically leading remote, offshore, or contracted engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience in FDA- and ISO-regulated industries and with agile methodologies.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent education and production experience.
• Professional- or architect-level AWS, Azure, or GCP certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Temporary assignment through a staffing agency, with potential conversion to regular full-time employment based on business need and performance.
• Agency benefits may be available during the temporary assignment; Tandem-sponsored benefits are available after conversion.
• Remote work with virtual training and company-provided equipment.
• Collaborative, inclusive workplace focused on innovation, growth, well-being, and camaraderie.

Hiring process

• The position remains open until a final candidate is selected or sufficient applications are received.