Site Reliability Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Vice President

Location: New York, New York, United States

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD base salary per year, plus potential discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm operating across financial markets.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate high-availability, multi-region cloud-native services for global 24×7 trading operations.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, reliability standards, observability, and post-incident improvements.
• Lead incident response for latency-sensitive, high-throughput trade lifecycle systems and coordinate technical and business stakeholders.
• Develop event-driven architectures, multi-stage processing pipelines, optimized data paths, and resilient distributed systems.
• Apply risk management to change control, capacity planning, resilience testing, chaos engineering, failover, and business continuity drills.
• Use AI-assisted engineering and operations agents to accelerate root-cause analysis, code comprehension, remediation, and automation while governing output quality.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software or reliability engineering experience.
• Strong command of at least one major programming language; Java 17+ is preferred.
• Experience operating high-availability production environments, including on-call, incident command, SLOs, error budgets, and post-incident reviews.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with AI models and AI-assisted engineering tools, including critical evaluation and governance of AI-generated work.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems, CI/CD automation, observability, messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka, and production debugging.

Nice to have

• Chaos engineering, capacity planning, load testing, and latency-sensitive production support.
• Spring Boot, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Apache Camel, Spring Integration, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• AI applications for anomaly detection, log analysis, automated remediation, and agentic operations.
• SQL or NoSQL databases, caching, performance optimization, enterprise security, mutual TLS, secrets management, or certificate rotation.
• Equities, post-trade, trade lifecycle, position management, reconciliation, or financial services experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global engineering organization supporting financial markets and distributed stakeholders.
• Benefits and wellness offerings are generally available to eligible active US employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Training, professional development, firmwide networks, wellness programs, and personal finance offerings are available.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with disabilities or special needs.