Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: San Jose R&D; fully in-person up to 5 days a week

Salary: $187,040–$359,720 annually, plus potential discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global operates TikTok apps and focuses on data privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and protection of U.S. user data.

What you will do

• Design, optimize, and operate high-concurrency distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and high availability.
• Build automation tools, streamline deployments, and manage infrastructure as code.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, logging, and SLI/SLO systems to improve service observability.
• Design and lead global disaster recovery drills, including complex failure simulations and failover validation.
• Respond to high-priority production incidents, coordinate cross-functional war rooms, and drive service restoration.
• Conduct blameless post-mortems, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking including TCP/IP and DNS, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• Experience managing containerized environments such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience in high-traffic production environments, incident response, disaster recovery, multi-region failover, or distributed database consistency.
• Familiarity with observability tools and infrastructure as code.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site collaboration focused on speed, alignment, and integrated execution.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits, 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available during recruitment.