Site Reliability Engineer (Predictions Tech)

Location: Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), Pennsylvania, United States

Company

hirify.global operates a predictions trading desk supported by software engineering and production operations.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain tooling and automation for monitoring the health, performance, and correctness of production services.
• Write production-grade software and scripts supporting reliability, deployment workflows, and operational visibility.
• Own observability across metrics, logs, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Operate and support Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and other core data and messaging infrastructure.
• Develop GitOps workflows, CI/CD, containerization, and deployment pipelines while owning production readiness and safe rollouts.
• Investigate distributed-system incidents across Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and application layers; participate in on-call support and post-incident improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in technology, including software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years supporting production systems in a containerized environment; Kubernetes is strongly preferred.
• Experience with AWS, including EKS, IAM, networking, and managed data services, and/or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations.
• Strong software engineering and scripting skills, especially in Python, Go, and/or bash.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, and GitOps/CD tooling such as ArgoCD.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a highly distributed environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with developers, quants, and traders.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in trading, fintech, sports betting, or other real-time or high-availability platforms.
• Familiarity with prediction markets or event-driven systems.
• Strong quantitative reasoning skills.
• Experience with AKS and/or EKS.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering role at the intersection of software engineering and production operations.
• Collaboration with developers, quants, and traders.
• Participation in an on-call schedule for production support and incident resolution.
• Immediate start.