Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes): Driving reliability across a financial services platform with an accent on multi-region infrastructure, SRE best practices, and operational excellence. Focus on architecting enterprise-scale AWS environments, implementing production-scale Kubernetes patterns, and leading chaos engineering initiatives.

Location: Remote (USA). Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. (No sponsorship provided).

Salary: $114,000 - $165,300

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company focused on transforming financial lives through a flexible work environment and inclusive culture.

What you will do

• Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives and define organizational SRE best practices, tools, and methodologies.
• Architect enterprise-scale, multi-region AWS infrastructure and production-scale Kubernetes patterns.
• Establish and operate SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive prioritization decisions.
• Serve as incident commander for major incidents and lead disaster recovery planning for critical infrastructure.
• Build shared Infrastructure as Code foundations using Terraform modules and patterns.
• Establish observability standards using Datadog and Splunk and drive FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spend.

Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of Site Reliability Engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Expert knowledge of AWS (large-scale, multi-region) and deep Kubernetes expertise.
• Mastery of Terraform and strong software engineering background in Python and/or Go.
• Extensive experience with observability platforms like Datadog and Splunk.
• Proven track record of leading major incidents and conducting effective postmortems.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. (visa sponsorship is not available).

Nice to have

• Financial services industry experience and understanding of SOC 2, PCI DSS, or FINRA compliance.
• Professional AWS certifications or Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
• Experience implementing SRE at organizations with 500+ engineers.
• Background in chaos engineering, game days, and service mesh management.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%).
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
• Generous paid time off, including 10 company holidays and 3 floating holidays.
• Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability programs.
• 16 hours of paid volunteer time per calendar year.