Senior Systems Reliability Engineer (Java)

Location: Taylor, TX, United States; hybrid work required two days per week

Salary: $109,000–$150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops and operates solutions supporting the Texas power grid and wholesale electricity market.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate reliability tooling, automation frameworks, self-healing systems, and production software.
• Own SLI/SLO governance, error budgets, alert quality, and observability architecture for assigned systems.
• Lead high-severity incident response, dual-datacenter failover, root-cause analysis, and actionable post-mortems.
• Implement chaos engineering programs, CI/CD reliability gates, capacity planning, and production-readiness standards.
• Diagnose and improve Java/Spring Boot and JVM performance across PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka, ActiveMQ, and REST/SOAP integrations.
• Design reliable Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, infrastructure-as-code, environment promotion pipelines, and automated patch compliance workflows.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of progressive experience in systems reliability, software engineering with an SRE focus, or a closely related field.
• Production experience with SLO frameworks, observability platforms, chaos engineering, automated remediation, and incident response.
• Strong Python and Java skills, including deep Java/Spring Boot and JVM performance expertise.
• Experience with Linux, Bash, CI pipelines, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, basic networking, and Kubernetes/OpenShift workload reliability.
• Expertise with the Grafana LGTM stack, Dynatrace, Splunk, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible/AAP, or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related field is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with dual-datacenter or hybrid cloud reliability architecture.
• NERC/CIP compliance, control implementation, audit preparation, and regulatory engagement experience.
• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Azure, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or ITIL certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive environment focused on accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise.
• Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Formal mentoring and opportunities to contribute technical standards, talks, documentation, and shared tooling.
• Work supports the development of solutions for current and future energy challenges.