Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: San Jose, United States; fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week

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

Company

hirify.global operates a secure U.S. data privacy and cybersecurity environment for TikTok apps, content, algorithms, and the U.S. user ecosystem.

What you will do

• Partner with engineering and product teams across system design, architecture reviews, deployment, operations, and continuous service refinement.
• Build tools, platforms, and automation that improve reliability, scalability, R&D efficiency, and operational workflows.
• Monitor service health, latency, and key metrics to maintain high availability and performance across large-scale, multi-region systems.
• Lead infrastructure migrations and architecture upgrades in a highly restricted compliance environment.
• Manage capacity, resource allocation, stability optimization, error attribution, and SLA/SLO compliance.
• Drive incident management, blameless postmortems, and systemic root-cause resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering for large-scale, highly reliable systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, system performance, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Programming experience in at least one of Go, Python, C/C++, or Java, plus Bash or shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated deployment pipelines, complex production environments, and operational workflow modernization.
• Ability to work on-site in San Jose in a fully in-person schedule of up to five days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh architectures, cloud platforms, and Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, or other observability tooling.
• Experience building self-service automation, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
• Interest or experience using LLMs, agentic AI, or machine learning concepts for operational automation and troubleshooting.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one, plus a 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time, with accrual increasing by tenure.
• Work in a secure, isolated infrastructure environment during a critical 0-to-1 platform-building phase.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available during recruitment.