Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid. Remote work is available across Europe depending on the role, with hubs in Berlin, London, and Tallinn.

Company

hirify.global provides an Investment API that enables fintechs and financial institutions to offer investment products and retirement-planning services.

What you will do

• Transform incident response and learning through robust runbooks, post-mortems, and improved incident-management practices.
• Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets as shared standards for engineering velocity and stability.
• Automate repetitive operational work and build tools that reduce engineering toil.
• Design resilient service patterns including circuit breakers, bulkheading, graceful degradation, and intelligent rate limiting.
• Validate system behavior under synthetic load and adversarial conditions to improve disaster preparedness.
• Design chaos experiments, redundancy patterns, and failover strategies while mentoring engineers and embedding SRE practices across product-engineering teams.

Requirements

• Years of SRE experience in high-stakes environments such as fintech, payments, banking, trading, mission-critical SaaS, or comparable domains.
• Hands-on expertise with SLOs, incident management, observability, automation, and eliminating operational toil.
• Deep understanding of resilience architecture and designing systems that fail gracefully.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Ability to mentor engineers, deliver projects end to end, and set technical direction within an engineering organisation.
• Understanding of the investment industry and its business context.

Nice to have

• Experience with Golang, Kubernetes, GCP, Postgres, Kafka, or Datadog.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid or remote work across Europe, with the choice of working from home or an office hub depending on the role.
• Up to 183 days of remote work abroad per year.
• 30 days of annual leave, sports benefits, confidential professional coaching, and a one-month fully paid sabbatical after every four years.
• Personal development budget and €20,000 per year for AI tools.
• Competitive salary, employee equity participation, company events, and an inclusion-focused workplace.