Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Systems & Application Observability)

Location: Chicago, Illinois; hybrid with 3 days per week in the office

Base salary: $180,000–$200,000 per year. Discretionary performance bonus: 15–20% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is a retail brokerage within IG North America and IG Group, building trading platforms for options, futures, equities, forex, and digital assets.

What you will do

• Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that reduces operational toil.
• Identify and close telemetry, logging, and alerting gaps across the observability stack.
• Own capacity planning, load testing, and scalability improvements for the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
• Extend Prometheus, Honeycomb, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to expose production failure modes.
• Define SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows.
• Mentor engineers and help establish a site reliability practice across infrastructure and application teams.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures, or containerization.
• Experience scaling production systems through capacity planning and architectural bottleneck analysis.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including direct service instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
• Production on-call experience, blameless incident reviews, SLOs, error budgets, and programming in Python, Ruby, Java, or a similar language.

Nice to have

• Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
• Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
• Gym reimbursement, in-building gym, commuter benefits, and shuttle service to and from Metra.
• Pet insurance, wellness and mental health programs, charitable donation matching, and paid volunteer days.
• Daily catered lunch, snacks, and beverages when working in the office.