Senior Data Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote - Nationwide, United States. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship, including CPT/OPT sponsorship, is not available.

Base salary: $105,700–$149,275 per year, with eligibility for a bonus program.

Company

hirify.global provides financial services focused on helping customers achieve financial freedom.

What you will do

• Own the reliability and stability of production data pipelines and AWS data platform services.
• Diagnose pipeline failures, delays, data quality issues, and performance problems across distributed systems such as Spark, EMR, Redshift, and streaming platforms.
• Lead or support incident response, including triage, mitigation, root cause analysis, and durable remediation.
• Define and improve data SLAs covering freshness, latency, and completeness.
• Design monitoring, alerting, observability, automation, disaster recovery, backup validation, and recovery workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams and maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience working with production data platforms in AWS environments.
• Experience building and operating production data pipelines, including troubleshooting real-world failures.
• Strong Python and SQL skills in real data systems.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed data processing systems such as Spark/EMR, Redshift, and streaming systems.
• Experience with AWS data services including EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, or similar technologies.
• Experience handling production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and resolving ambiguous operational issues.

Nice to have

• Experience with backfills, reprocessing, late-arriving data, and incomplete data.
• Experience improving observability and alerting for data systems.
• Exposure to Kafka, Kinesis, CDC patterns, or other event-driven systems.
• Experience with disaster recovery, backup validation, and resiliency testing.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders during incidents.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work environment with reliable high-speed wired internet required.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions of up to 6%.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year.
• Paid time off, company holidays, floating holidays, volunteer time, parental leave, disability coverage, and FMLA programs.
• Inclusive business resource groups and a business-casual work environment.