Senior Site Reliability Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Location: Remote - Americas

Company

hirify.global provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure and developer-friendly APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and other financial services.

What you will do

• Operate production systems through on-call coverage, incident response, postmortems, and remediation follow-ups.
• Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with product engineering teams.
• Improve observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads through infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows.
• Own PostgreSQL reliability work, including performance tuning, schema and migration reviews, online migrations, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing on reliability and database practices.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
• Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes and delivering infrastructure through GitOps.
• Production PostgreSQL expertise, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations.
• Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS.
• Experience with observability tooling, Linux operations, and structured incident response.
• Working proficiency in Go or Python, strong communication skills, and an interest in developing deeper PostgreSQL and DBA expertise.

Nice to have

• Experience with large PostgreSQL clusters, OLTP workloads, online migrations, HA/DR, connection pooling, or CDC pipelines.
• Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go, such as pgx, gorm, or sqlc.
• Production experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redpanda.
• Security and compliance experience in regulated environments.
• Experience in trading, brokerage, or regulated fintech.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a globally distributed team of 400+ professionals.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
• USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.