Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote from Türkiye; required working hours are 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST.

Salary: $5,000–$9,500 gross per month in USD.

Company

hirify.global is a fintech and retail product company developing interest-free installment payment and shopping solutions.

What you will do

• Architect, upgrade, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS, and distributed systems patterns.
• Drive the infrastructure roadmap with a focus on reliability, recoverability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead capacity planning, benchmarking, stress testing, bottleneck analysis, and preparation for business growth.
• Define and enforce SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, observability, security, and CI/CD practices.
• Support AI enablement for infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling.
• Mentor engineers and translate business goals into technical roadmaps.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant SRE and backend experience.
• Strong Golang skills and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, especially MySQL and PostgreSQL, including schema and query optimization.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, stream processing, queues, and transactional outbox patterns.
• Experience with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is also required.

Nice to have

• AWS cloud infrastructure experience, particularly Aurora RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with data engineering, data pipelines, and data warehousing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized microservices on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or Cursor.
• Experience shipping commercial APIs and data-driven applications in high-growth environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role with a fixed EST schedule supporting operations in the United States and Canada.
• High autonomy and authority to identify and resolve infrastructure, deployment, and operational problems.
• Culture emphasizing high standards, innovation, direct communication, calculated risk-taking, and accountability.
• Focus on learning, mentoring, open-source technologies, and operational excellence.