Senior SRE (Fintech)

Location: Remote - APAC; other location: Remote - Japan

Company

hirify.global provides brokerage infrastructure and developer-facing APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading, serving financial institutions across 40 countries.

What you will do

• Operate production systems through on-call support, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions.
• Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, helping product teams operate within them.
• Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads as code through a GitOps workflow.
• Improve PostgreSQL reliability through performance tuning, schema and migration reviews, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
• Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
• Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
• Solid production knowledge of PostgreSQL, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations on non-trivial tables.
• Cloud networking fundamentals covering VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS, with the ability to debug cross-service connectivity.
• Experience with a modern observability stack and proficiency with Linux at the operator level.
• Incident response experience, including structured debugging and postmortems that drive change.
• At least working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication.
• Genuine interest in databases and willingness to grow PostgreSQL and DBA expertise.

Nice to have

• Deeper PostgreSQL experience with large OLTP clusters, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or CDC pipelines.
• Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go, such as pgx, gorm, or sqlc.
• Production experience with messaging systems at scale, such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redpanda.
• Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment, including SOC 2, secrets management, or audit logging.
• Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work across APAC, including Japan.
• Health benefits, competitive salary, and stock options.
• One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.
• USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
• Global, distributed workplace with a focus on curiosity, empathy, accountability, open-source contributions, and diversity.