Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering (FinTech)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; 2–3 days per week in the office required

Salary: $235,000–$245,000 annual base salary plus annual bonus for San Francisco residents

Company

hirify.global provides liquidity solutions, private-market data and insights, custody services, and a marketplace for companies, employees, and investors.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, organizational design, and performance management.
• Define strategy for internal platforms, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, observability, and developer enablement.
• Improve availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational maturity across production systems.
• Establish standards for incident management, service ownership, operational readiness, disaster recovery, and post-incident learning.
• Partner with product and software engineering leaders to build paved-road solutions that improve delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience.
• Guide cloud capacity, cost, architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, SLOs, operational metrics, and executive reporting.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial leadership of infrastructure, platform, cloud, or reliability-focused teams.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and building high-performing engineering organizations.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, production operations, service reliability, and scalable engineering architecture.
• Experience defining engineering strategy, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and translating business priorities into platform roadmaps.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, financial services, or another regulated industry.
• Experience with cloud modernization, platform standardization, or large-scale reliability transformations.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure automation tooling.
• Experience building developer platforms and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
• Experience at growth-stage companies balancing scale, speed, and reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a regulated financial technology environment focused on secure and reliable infrastructure.
• Promote accountability, continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, risk, product, and engineering stakeholders.
• Employment includes background checks covering employment and education verification, criminal history, fingerprinting, and drug testing.