Senior Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Data Pipelines): Building and operating infrastructure and tooling for large-scale data ingestion pipelines with an accent on automation, observability, CI/CD, and reliability at scale. Focus on designing Kubernetes-based provisioning, monitoring solutions with Grafana/ELK, incident response, and SLO tracking for production systems.

Company

hirify.global develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across global markets using a proprietary research platform to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas).

What you will do

• Design and develop automation, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability features for data onboarding pipelines (70% build).
• Build observability solutions using Grafana, ELK stack, Vector; implement infrastructure-as-code for Kubernetes and bare metal hosts.
• Integrate tools like Redis, Celery, MySQL; develop internal services to reduce toil.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, drive post-mortems, and define SLOs/SLIs (30% operate).
• Diagnose performance issues, create runbooks, plan capacity, and optimize resources.
• Collaborate with engineering, analyst, and research teams to ensure pipeline reliability.

Requirements

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Expertise in Linux for infrastructure management and troubleshooting.
• Strong Python for scripting, CLI tools, and automation.
• Deep Kubernetes and Docker experience: deploying, scaling, debugging production workloads.
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK; dashboards, alerts, SLOs.
• CI/CD (GitLab CI), IaC (Ansible); databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), message queues (Kafka, Redis, Celery).
• Networking, APIs, incident management, on-call experience.
• Leadership: mentoring, roadmaps, cross-team coordination.
• Openness to AI agents and LLM tools in workflow.

Nice to have

• Cloud: GCP or AWS.
• Data tools: Apache Arrow, gRPC, columnar formats.
• Big data: Hadoop, Spark.
• Languages: C/C++, Golang, Scala, JavaScript.
• Financial services background; SRE principles from Google's book.

Culture & Benefits

• Intellectually driven environment encouraging open thinking, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, clear career roadmap, learning opportunities: training, library, speakers, share events.
• Premium health insurance, employee assistance, generous time-off, sabbaticals, trade union benefits.
• Team activities: monthly events, clubs (sports, yoga, gaming), daily snacks, happy hours.
• Annual trips, global conferences for travel and networking.