Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote within the United States of America; candidates outside the U.S. cannot be hired.

Base salary: $175,000–$185,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops financial products that accelerate payments and provide accessible financial services for working Americans.

What you will do

• Improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, capacity, and observability through automation and tooling.
• Partner with developers to build and operate high-performing Java/Spring Boot services using rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Design infrastructure, monitoring, processes, and technical standards for systems and applications.
• Define and monitor availability, latency, system health, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners.
• Profile and optimize latency, throughput, resilience, and capacity under load.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis while developing preventative measures and managing application monitoring services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in site reliability engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating Java/Spring Boot services in production.
• Experience with Terraform, Go, Java, Gradle, Docker, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes.
• Current authorization to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer is required.

Nice to have

• Python and Bash scripting.
• Developing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators.
• Google Pub/Sub, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Spanner, and MySQL.
• JVM performance tuning and profiling.
• Experience with GCP platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with employees throughout the U.S.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Stock options and a monthly home-office stipend.
• 401(k), flexible time off, sick and safe time, and 11 paid company holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and a same-day pay option.

Hiring process

• Identity verification is required during the application process through Persona.
• Applicants must complete identity verification before proceeding with the application.