Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, IL; hybrid schedule with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday. Remote candidates are not accepted.

Salary: $160,000–$210,000 USD annually, plus a 12% annual target bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a retail trading platform and futures broker serving more than 2 million users with trading software and brokerage services.

What you will do

• Lead the SRE function, set technical direction, and mentor engineers across reliability initiatives.
• Deploy and operate single- and multi-cluster services on Kubernetes.
• Analyze production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement remediation.
• Build automation for repetitive operational tasks, deployments, and incident response.
• Design monitoring and alerting systems and establish SLIs and SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, product, and QA teams to meet scalability, security, performance, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, security, and identity management.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog, plus strong leadership and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Trading industry experience.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and Sunday pre-market checkouts.
• Remote work on Mondays and Fridays, plus 20 additional flex remote days annually.
• Five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays.
• 23 days of annual paid time off, paid holidays, and one service day.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 3.5%, health, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage, and paid parental bonding leave.