Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Fintech): Develop and operate scalable, high-performance infrastructure and platform components for real-time financial systems with an accent on compute, storage, networking, and database optimization. Focus on building resilient, automated CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and system performance tuning under high load.

Location: New York City office, must be authorized to work in the United States

Salary: $185,000 - $250,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a fintech startup building high-performance financial systems focused on the crypto derivatives market.

What you will do

• Develop robust scripts and services for real-time, high-performance environments.
• Manage and deploy compute resources and containers using orchestration tools.
• Automate scaling, load balancing, and congestion control across compute and database layers.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and rollback.
• Monitor and tune system performance across CPU, memory, I/O, and network.
• Provision and optimize diverse database systems including time-series and key-value stores.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• 3+ years experience building production-grade infrastructure in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Strong scripting and development skills, especially in Rust and low-level languages.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and compute instance management.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and network security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and infrastructure as code practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and significant equity package.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA options.
• Generous paid vacation and holidays.
• Retirement plan with employer matching contributions.