Senior Engineer Site Reliability (AWS/Data Operations)

Location: Remote - Nationwide within the United States. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship, including CPT/OPT sponsorship, is not available.

Base salary: $105,700–$149,275 per year, with potential participation in a bonus program.

Company

hirify.global provides financial services focused on helping customers achieve financial freedom.

What you will do

• Own and improve the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of production data platforms and pipelines.
• Monitor pipeline execution, dependencies, failures, recovery, delays, and downstream impact.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across AWS, data platforms, pipelines, and supporting services.
• Design observability with Datadog and Splunk, including dashboards, alerting, logging, and service-health indicators.
• Lead incident response, service restoration, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational runbook improvements.
• Automate monitoring, health checks, remediation, and repetitive support tasks with Python while improving resilience, capacity, cost efficiency, and operational maturity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting production environments.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Reliability Engineering.
• Strong practical knowledge of SRE principles, production operations, incident management, and root-cause analysis.
• Production experience with Amazon Redshift or similar enterprise data platforms and data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog and Splunk, plus strong Python programming and working SQL knowledge.
• Strong understanding of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, including reading, reviewing, and troubleshooting existing IaC.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Snowflake or multiple cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience designing observability for large-scale, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
• Experience with AIOps, intelligent automation, agentic operations, or AI-assisted incident management.
• Familiarity with Amazon CloudWatch, data-pipeline orchestration, failure recovery, and cloud-cost visibility.
• Experience establishing or maturing SRE practices within an engineering organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work environment with a focus on purpose, well-being, inclusion, and work-life balance.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions of up to 6% and additional retirement benefits.
• Paid time off, ten paid company holidays, floating holidays, paid parental leave, disability leave, and FMLA programs.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year and 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually.
• PagerDuty on-call rotation with occasional weekend coverage.