Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Aerospace)

TL;DR

Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Aerospace): Designing and maintaining robust, scalable cloud-native infrastructure for electric aircraft systems with an accent on EKS management, observability, and security. Focus on building internal LLM-powered chat services, optimizing data pipelines, and driving CI/CD excellence to ensure high system reliability.

Location: Must be based in San Jose, California, United States. Candidates must demonstrate U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or status as a protected individual to satisfy ITAR requirements.

Salary: $207,400–$259,200

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace company building all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to advance sustainable air mobility.

What you will do

• Implement and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on Amazon EKS.
• Develop observability strategies including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Architect and optimize data pipelines for efficient data flow.
• Drive continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Implement robust security practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into the software lifecycle.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles.
• Deep expertise in Amazon EKS, Docker, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Advanced scripting skills in Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Proven track record with data pipelines (Kafka, Airflow, Spark) and observability tools.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected individual (ITAR compliance).
• No visa sponsorship available.

Nice to have

• Experience with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, or GDPR.
• Certifications in AWS or Kubernetes.
• Experience with alternative Kubernetes distributions or cloud providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Pay-for-performance culture focused on business strategy.
• Commitment to an equitable and inclusive workplace.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge sustainable aerospace technology.