Senior Infrastructure Engineer, SRE (AWS)

Location: Remote within the USA; office locations include San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Salary: $150,000–$185,000 per year plus bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides financial products and services that help millions of people better manage their finances.

What you will do

• Build and improve the reliability and resiliency of hundreds of production services operating at large scale.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services and user journeys in partnership with product engineering teams.
• Own the disaster recovery strategy, including recovery objectives, failover and restore paths, and regular exercises.
• Evolve observability standards for metrics, tracing, logs, instrumentation, alert quality, and cost.
• Strengthen incident response by tuning paging thresholds, maintaining runbooks, and following up on postmortem actions.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure work, platform improvements, automation, and a shared on-call rotation of one week every six weeks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud or infrastructure engineering experience, including substantial production reliability and operations work at scale.
• Experience defining SLIs and SLOs for real production services and evaluating their operational impact.
• Production experience with an observability platform; Datadog is strongly preferred.
• Ability to write code in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language for tooling, debugging, and automation.
• Production Terraform experience and strong AWS skills.
• Experience building or operating disaster recovery plans, conducting failover and restore drills, and participating in on-call rotations.

Nice to have

• Leadership of reliability or observability modernization projects.
• Experience building internal tooling, libraries, or instrumentation standards.
• Experience running game days, chaos experiments, or disaster recovery exercises.
• Experience reducing observability costs while maintaining coverage.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) matching.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Competitive pay, bonus, and additional benefits.
• Daily lunch, snacks, coffee, and commuter benefits for in-office employees.