Observability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Observability Engineer (Fintech): Designing, migrating, and maintaining company-wide monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms with an accent on compliance, performance, and reliability. Focus on operating Elastic Enterprise clusters, designing log pipelines, and automating observability infrastructure with GitOps tools.

Location: Remote (Europe). Relocation support is available to our hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, and Spain.

Company

hirify.global is a fast-scaling, pre-IPO FinTech unicorn that provides financial freedom solutions by allowing shoppers to split payments online and in-store.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Elastic Enterprise clusters (index lifecycle, scaling, retention, access control, backups).
• Design and manage log pipelines (Fluentd / Fluent Bit / Logstash / Beats) for applications, databases, and infrastructure.
• Support and gradually decommission Datadog integrations (logs, metrics, APM, RUM, dashboards, monitors).
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Security teams to ensure observability compliance and integration with SOC2 / SIEM.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, improving service reliability and visibility.
• Implement and optimize metrics and APM solutions (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, etc.).
• Automate observability infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tools (FluxCD or ArgoCD).

Requirements

• 4+ years in DevOps / SRE / Observability roles.
• Solid experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, log shippers).
• Hands-on experience building or running APM / Metrics platforms (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, etc.).
• Exposure to security monitoring / SIEM integration.
• Strong experience in Grafana Labs tools like Loki, Tempo, etc.
• English: B2 required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kafka, ClickHouse, or Grafana Loki.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, OCI, or AWS).

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time B2B contract.
• Fully remote setup.
• Up to 20% tax allowance and 22 paid leave days annually.
• Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company.
• Flexi benefits you can use for wellness, travel, or learning.
• Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn.

Hiring process

• Stage 1: Applied
• Stage 2: Review
• Stage 3: HR call @hirify.global
• Stage 4: Technical interview @hirify.global
• Stage 5: Final interview @hirify.global
• Stage 6: Hired