Global Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (Java/AWS)

Location: New York, NY; hybrid with flexible options

Salary: $235,000–$250,000 annual, plus bonus eligibility

Company

hirify.global provides financial-services technology and operates an integrated event-driven platform connecting enterprise applications with client-facing experiences across capital markets, wealth management, investor communications, and other business domains.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing SRE team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and technical leadership development.
• Own the SRE strategy and roadmap for reliability, release performance, automation, scalability, capacity, and delivery accountability.
• Guide architecture and code reviews, complex troubleshooting, operational tooling, and production engineering decisions.
• Advance AWS infrastructure automation, environment provisioning, IAM, networking, compute resilience, and recovery capabilities.
• Improve Kafka event-processing reliability and PostgreSQL performance, resilience, migrations, and recovery procedures.
• Lead CI/CD and release engineering, service-level objectives, incident response, disaster recovery, operational automation, and responsible AI adoption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering or closely related production engineering experience, including Java services in production.
• Experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, talent development, resource planning, and complex technical delivery.
• Strong Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, and PostgreSQL skills, including API design, performance tuning, event-driven systems, database optimization, and operational troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, incident response, distributed systems, and operational tooling.
• Ability to lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate architectural, operational, and delivery trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement in New York, NY.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Kafka Connect, and PostgreSQL replication or high availability.
• Progressive delivery, automated release verification, self-service engineering tools, or policy-as-code experience.
• AI-assisted engineering or operational capabilities with measurable productivity, quality, or incident-resolution improvements.
• Experience with financial-services platforms or other regulated, business-critical distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, engaging, and inclusive working environment.
• Commitment to an environment where associates can be authentic, valued, and supported.
• Comprehensive benefit offerings.
• Bonus eligibility.
• AI-assisted hiring tools are used with human review in employment decisions.