Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, Illinois — hybrid, with 3 days per week in the office

Base salary: $180,000–$200,000 per year. Discretionary performance bonus: 15–20% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global is a Chicago-based retail brokerage and part of IG Group, a FTSE 100 fintech serving customers across five continents.

What you will do

• Define customer-meaningful SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerting for order execution and market data delivery.
• Author reliability standards, including SLO methodology, error-budget policy, observability guidance, and Production Readiness Review checklists.
• Implement reliability patterns such as circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, and load shedding in Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.
• Extend observability with Prometheus, Honeycomb, and OpenTelemetry while guiding workloads across the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
• Design tabletop exercises and fault-injection tests for real-world failure and market-volatility scenarios.
• Mentor engineers and build a cross-team culture of site reliability champions.

Requirements

• Production-quality coding experience in Ruby and/or Java, plus Python for automation.
• Experience embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including direct service instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
• Production on-call experience and comfort establishing blameless post-incident review processes.
• Experience influencing standards across teams without direct ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
• Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
• Gym membership reimbursement, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and wellness and mental health programs.
• Charitable donation matching and two paid volunteer days.
• Daily catered lunch, office kitchen, in-building gym, and shuttle service to and from Metra.