Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech): Building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure and tools for scalable and reliable systems with an accent on CI/CD pipeline automation, database monitoring, and observability. Focus on deploying infrastructure resources via Terraform, managing Kubernetes and Istio, and leveraging LLM models for tooling.

Location: Chicago, IL and Redwood City, CA. This role follows a hybrid schedule: Redwood City, CA requires in-office attendance on Mondays and choice of three days between Tuesday-Friday. Chicago, IL requires 4 days in-office and 1 day remote.

Company

hirify.global empowers consumers to leverage their data in exchange for modern financial services, aiming to build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem.

What you will do

• Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure by writing Terraform modules and developing Helm charts.
• Define metrics, network policies, and routing rules for the Istio service mesh.
• Monitor and maintain GCP BigQuery and Spanner databases.
• Pipe metrics to Google-managed Prometheus and build Grafana dashboards and alerts.
• Experiment with GCP offerings, 3rd party vendors, and open-source tools to automate and secure operations.
• Participate in architecture design and capacity planning discussions to ensure system scalability, maintainability, reliability, and security.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud-native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP).
• Experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio.
• Experience with SQL database technologies including MySQL, Google BigQuery, and Google Spanner.
• Experience with stream technologies like Kafka and Amazon Kinesis.
• Experience with pub/sub technologies such as AWS SNS and Google Pub/Sub.
• Experience with serverless computing technologies like AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions/Run.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools including Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Nice to have

• Experience with SOC2 Compliance processes and requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals.
• Opportunity to learn and teach in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong desire to automate processes and reduce reliance on manual tasks.
• Opportunity to experiment with new technologies and stress test them.
• Regularly provide and proactively seek constructive feedback for continuous improvement.