Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Cloud): Building and evolving automated systems to run products reliably and consistently with an accent on observability, scalability, and infrastructure-as-code. Focus on designing developer experience tooling, implementing SLOs/SLIs, and ensuring high availability in containerized cloud-native environments.

Location: Onsite in Seattle, Washington, United States (5 days a week). Must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Salary: $175,000–$200,000

Company

hirify.global, a Morningstar company, provides high-value financial data and software for the private markets.

What you will do

• Build and maintain internal platform services, Kubernetes operators, and observability tooling for enterprise reliability at scale.
• Design developer experience tooling and AI-leveraged workflows through Claude Code plugins and MCP servers.
• Establish service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and SLIs to define and meet system success criteria.
• Implement disaster recovery (DR), backups, and multi-regional cloud constructs to ensure system recoverability.
• Optimize clustering and load balancing techniques for high availability in containerized cloud-native environments.
• Operate and continuously improve services' reliability, scalability, performance, security, and uptime.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred).
• 5+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX-based systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP & AWS).
• 5+ years in SRE or DevOps roles using IaC tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef.
• 5+ years of coding experience in an object-oriented language (Java, Python, Go, or Kotlin).
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Professional certification in AWS or GCP (DevOps or SysOps Engineer preferred).
• Experience with distributed microservices, event-driven architectures, and data storage technologies (PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch).

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health, medical wellness, and life insurance.
• Paid sabbatical program after four years, paid family leave, and generous vacation/sick days.
• Annual educational stipend and tuition reimbursement.
• 401k match and shared ownership employee stock program.
• Monthly transportation stipend and quarterly team-building events.