Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, with required on-site access to the San Francisco data center when needed. hirify.global hires in the United States and Canada only; candidates residing outside these countries cannot be processed.

US pay range: $180,000–$220,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global builds infrastructure connecting banks and fintechs.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate cloud and hybrid infrastructure covering networking, infrastructure-as-code, containers, and cost management.
• Run and improve the San Francisco data center, including racking, cabling, hardware replacement, and other hands-on hardware work.
• Own deployment pipelines, automation, monitoring standards, logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Define service levels, participate in 24/7 on-call, and lead incident response from first page through postmortems.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and data warehouses for internal analytics, reporting, and compliance.
• Maintain SOC 2 and PCI controls, document systems, automate runbooks, mentor engineers, and partner with software engineering and product.

Requirements

• 6 to 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, owning production infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience running physical infrastructure in a data center, including racking, cabling, hardware replacement, and network setup.
• Deep practical experience with CI/CD, cloud services, infrastructure-as-code, containers, and monitoring.
• Production reliability ownership, including on-call, incident response, and SLOs.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 and PCI compliance programs and their operational requirements.
• Experience explaining infrastructure decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Clear written communication through design documents, runbooks, and postmortems.
• Curiosity about AI, self-directed learning, and the ability to evaluate where new tools belong in infrastructure production.
• Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area with the ability to be on site at the data center when needed.

Nice to have

• Network engineering and DNS administration.
• Hands-on experience with penetration testing, security scans, and security issue management.
• Experience building data pipelines and data warehouses alongside infrastructure.
• Experience in regulated industries such as banking, payments, or financial services.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on individual contributor role with responsibility for architecture decisions and technical direction.
• AI-forward working environment with ongoing experimentation and learning.
• Close collaboration with DevOps, data engineering, software engineering, and product.
• Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Inclusive equal employment opportunity workplace.