Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, United States; hybrid role with office attendance required 2+ days per week

Salary: $132,100–$220,100 annually, plus annual target bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global operates a global derivatives marketplace and develops systems that support financial markets and clearing operations.

What you will do

• Build solutions that ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of clearing and risk systems.
• Architect and implement application resiliency and fault-tolerance capabilities.
• Drive automation, continuous improvement, CI/CD, orchestration, and configuration management across the system lifecycle.
• Integrate SRE principles into software development and guide teams in deploying and maintaining critical applications.
• Lead incident-prevention, observability, and performance-testing initiatives at global scale.
• Own the end-to-end operational integrity of products and collaborate with development and platform teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications with IaaS and PaaS on major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with GKE, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Chef, plus automation and configuration-management practices.
• Deep knowledge of SRE and security best practices, performance testing, observability, and complex performance troubleshooting.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, self-management, and ability to handle multiple concurrent projects.

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript or Rust.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
• Passion for continuous learning and emerging technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive environment focused on career progression, continuous learning, and inclusion.
• Exposure to diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams.
• Comprehensive health coverage, retirement package with 401(k) and pension plan, paid time off, and mental health benefits.
• Education reimbursement, annual target bonus opportunity, and broad-based equity program.