Api Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

API Reliability Engineer: Building and operating reliable, scalable, and high-performance API services using Java and Spring Boot with an accent on troubleshooting complex issues and improving system resilience. Focus on incident resolution and prevention, ensuring services are designed and implemented with reliability, observability, and scalability.

Location: Remote - Nationwide

Salary: $87,400.00 - $123,400.00

Company

hirify.global's vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving their people the freedom to transform their own.

What you will do

• Own and improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of API services in production.
• Troubleshoot and resolve P1/P2 production incidents end-to-end, analyzing issues across application, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Work closely with API developers to identify and address reliability issues and application-level security vulnerabilities in service design and implementation.
• Improve API resilience through patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• Establish and enhance observability and service health metrics, including logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs, using Datadog and Splunk.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to ensure safe and consistent deployments.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend or API development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Proven experience building, shipping, and operating APIs in production environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug real production issues end-to-end.
• Experience with AWS services, including API Gateway, ALB/NLB, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, or DynamoDB.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.

Nice to have

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Developer Associate.
• Experience with microservices and distributed system design.
• Exposure to SLAs/SLOs and service health metrics.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment and fluid career paths.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup.
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year.
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play.