Tech Lead, AI Infra Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $187,040–$438,000 annually, with potential discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global operates TikTok-related apps and focuses on protecting U.S. user data, national security, cybersecurity, and the U.S. content ecosystem.

What you will do

• Improve the full lifecycle of recommendation and search systems, from system design consulting and launch reviews through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Develop tools and software that improve service reliability, scalability, operational automation, and R&D efficiency.
• Build availability for large-scale services deployed across global data centers.
• Plan, manage, and optimize cloud resource utilization while maintaining SLAs for large-scale clusters.
• Measure and monitor availability, latency, and overall service health.
• Lead sustainable incident response and postmortem practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, plus 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with SRE for large-scale systems requiring high reliability and scalability.
• Linux and networking operations experience.
• Programming experience in at least one of Python, Perl, Go, C, or C++.
• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments, effective communication, and strong ownership.

Nice to have

• SRE experience with recommendation systems, search platforms, or advertising platforms.
• Familiarity with the machine learning lifecycle and inference engines.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time, with accrual increasing by tenure.
• Work in an in-person environment focused on speed, alignment, agility, curiosity, humility, resilience, and continuous iteration.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during recruitment for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other legally protected reasons.