Systems Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Cloud)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Ensure the availability, performance, and operational excellence of large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Design, automate, and operate complex infrastructure, services, and production tooling.
• Operate Linux systems, Kubernetes clusters, and container-based workloads at scale.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications.
• Lead incident response and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Improve platform reliability through observability, SLOs, error budgets, and reduced operational toil.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of SRE, DevOps, or production engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems; the posting lists 6+ years of experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java.
• Hands-on Linux operations, including networking, performance tuning, and systems troubleshooting.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, containers, observability tooling, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of distributed system design, including consistency models, partitioning, and failure semantics, plus strong communication and documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, capacity planning, performance engineering, or large-scale load testing.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or H-1B transfer candidates; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.