Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Blockchain)

TL;DR

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Blockchain): Delivering reliability, performance, and uptime for institutional digital asset infrastructure with an accent on continuously improving system operations and preventing issues. Focus on analyzing system capacity, identifying bottlenecks, and building scalable solutions across the engineering organization.

Location: Hybrid in London

Company

hirify.global builds institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services, leveraging Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology.

What you will do

• Define and drive the adoption of SRE principles, observability, and operational excellence, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Champion architectural improvements for system reliability and deployment velocity, providing consultation on architecture, capacity planning, and production readiness.
• Improve the lifecycle of microservices from inception through deployment, operation, observability, and continuous refinement.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to embed reliability into product development and drive systemic improvements in incident management.
• Mentor engineers on SRE practices and help teams own service reliability.

Requirements

• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems or micro-services architectures.
• Established expertise in observability and incident management.
• Proven experience in driving organizational change.
• Excellent communication skills with a systematic problem-solving approach.

Nice to have

• Experience working with production workloads in AWS.
• Experience working in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
• Interest in blockchain based technologies and/or ‘decentralised’ finance.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with offices in London, APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US.
• Minimum 35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional day for each year of service.
• Comprehensive medical insurance, including dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage.
• Life insurance and enhanced pension contributions with employer matching.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Blame-free, intellectually honest environment with autonomy and support for growth.

Hiring process

• Initial Screening with Talent Acquisition.
• Technical Interview via Microsoft Teams.
• In-Person Interview focusing on team dynamics and final technical questions.
• Cultural Interview exploring motivations, values, and communication style.