Production Site Reliability Engineer (Java)

Location: Onsite in Austin, TX; Southlake, TX; or Omaha, NE. The role requires working onsite four days per week, primarily on night shifts from 2pm–10pm CST, with weekend and rotating on-call support as needed.

Salary: USD $120,000–$155,000 per year, plus bonus or incentive opportunities.

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company developing technology that supports clients’ financial futures.

What you will do

• Protect the stability, performance, and resiliency of the Order Management System.
• Assess and resolve complex production incidents and rapidly restore critical systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, database, and vendor teams to minimize business impact.
• Improve operational excellence through automation, observability, production readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Lead incident response, identify root causes, and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Shape operational practices, mentor engineers, and support medium-to-high-risk production releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in production support, SRE, software operations, or a related technology support role.
• Advanced troubleshooting experience with Java-based distributed applications and SQL-backed enterprise systems.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database, SQL analysis, database troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Experience with AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, InfluxDB, Control-M, Linux administration, and RHEL environments.
• Availability for night shifts, weekends, and rotating on-call support; experience with Python or Shell scripting and high-severity incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience improving availability, reliability, and mean time to resolution.
• Experience creating monitoring strategies, operational runbooks, and escalation procedures.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, or coaching experience within production support or SRE teams.
• Knowledge of change management, risk management, security, and compliance in regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on innovation, accountability, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• 401(k) with company match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid vacation, volunteering time, parental leave, and family-building benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement and a 28-day sabbatical after five years of service for eligible positions.